From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 04:59:10 MST
"joe dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net> writes:
> They were operating on the 'rare loose nut' theory; that if enough
>people accessed and perused their site, they would occasionally push
>the rare loose nut who found them over the edge into assassination.
>It is incitement to murder and dissemination of enabling info. to
>facilitate that purpose, pure and simple. It's a semiotically and
>memetically programmed implausibly deniable cyber-doctor-killing
>module.
See Bruce Sterling's excellent novel _Distraction_ for an even nastier
version: an agent residing at some computer monitoring the views
expressed by certain people, keeping tabs of how "bad" they are. If
someone is too "bad" it activates a second agent. This agent normally
collects and analyzes rants in places like alt.conspiracy or
alt.kill.the.masons.and.alieninvaders, using profililing software to
gather lists of potential violent maniacs. The second agent now mails
a rant from a fellow white supremacist/illuminated
master/vorlon/concerned parent (suitably tuned) to each of them,
mentioning the "bad" person. Result when successful: dangerous maniacs
on the hunt, and the source is almost impossible to track down.
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