Re: Crime and Safety engineering [was: Ooh a gun fight!!]

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 01:22:39 MST


"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> I will state however, that IMO, the gun manufacturers are being
> irresponsible in this day and age of technology, selling products
> that are not engineered so that only the owner can turn them on.
> If you can protect a computer from misuse, you should be able to
> engineer weapons so that they cannot accidentally (or intentionally
> in the wrong hands) harm people.

I've never heard of anyone fending off a rapist
by booting a computer in the middle of the night.

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Anton Sherwood  *\\*  br0nt0@p0b0x.com  *\\*  http://www.jps.net/antons/



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