Re: The End of Privacy ?/World

From: Borys Wrobel (bwrobel@aim.salk.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 02 1998 - 12:43:45 MDT


> Michael Lorrey:

>Since the risk by crazies is currently near non-existent (you are more
>likely to be hit by a plane falling out of the sky than attacked by a
terrorist),

the problem is, will it increase?

> Show me a nut with a nuke and I'll be ready to show you off world
>capability (If its so easy for him to get a nuke, then it should be just
as >easy for me to build a nuclear powered rocket!!!!)

and thats a second one: it's much easier to write a puter virus than an
anti-virus program, to build a nuke than a rocket, and way, way much easier
to conceive a good biological weapon than a way to defend oneself against
it, and I assume the same goes for actually making it.

b



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