Re: Threat Model: Biowar

Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:

> Anonymous wrote:
> > Highly contagious airborne diseases are known to exist.  Germ warfare
> > laboratories are also known to exist.  The owners of these labs will
> > do anything to get and keep power.
> > The Internet and crypto-anarchy threatens those who currently have
> > power.  How will they respond?
> > One response would be a biowarfare attack on the civilian population.
>
> [snip]
>
> Biowar attacks (unless giant-scale, intended to kill millions)
> mainly affect the already-sick, very old, and very weak members
> of the population.  This is, of course, a favored plan for fascist
> persons such as the woman who founded Planned Parenthood, George
> Bush, the Harrimans, Shockley, etc., but nearly useless to target
> dissidents and "crypto anarchists".

If medicare or social security get too expensive, an epidemic targeting
the elderly would be good for the economy. I did a little work with
(biological) viruses under the late Lou Auslander and the technology
available 12 years ago was pretty amazing. I'm sure they can do more now.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> The analogies from bio-viruses to computer equivalents is interesting
> in a crypto-anarchic context.  Be nice to hear more on this.

  DNA as the original cryptographer?
  Dr. Virus KOTC(reation) as the original code-breaker/shit-disturber?
  John Gilmore as the original host/primordal-swamp for a variety of
 crypto-anarchic life-forms?
  (I can see arguments brewing here as to who plays the 'Slime' in this
Crypto-Genetic-Genesis.)
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Toto
"The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre"
http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:
> > Biowar attacks (unless giant-scale, intended to kill millions)
> > mainly affect the already-sick, very old, and very weak members
> > of the population.  This is, of course, a favored plan for fascist
> > persons such as the woman who founded Planned Parenthood, George
> > Bush, the Harrimans, Shockley, etc., but nearly useless to target
> > dissidents and "crypto anarchists".

> If medicare or social security get too expensive, an epidemic targeting
> the elderly would be good for the economy. I did a little work with
> (biological) viruses under the late Lou Auslander and the technology
> available 12 years ago was pretty amazing. I'm sure they can do more now.

The analogies from bio-viruses to computer equivalents is interesting
in a crypto-anarchic context.  Be nice to hear more on this.