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> This is a problem for the future to solve. Not us. Seriously? > In bioweapons, I think we are still on the "happy hackers era", where > people in a biochemical laboratory in Liverpool have access to some > fungus that can wipe half the city, but don't do, because have a lot > of fun studying the fungus to learn new antibiotics, or maybe to cure > baldness. Scientist are, of course, hackers. Fun people that make > this question: Exploitability. Can this fungus be used to cure > baldness? Can this fungus be exploited to remove plastic from our > oceans?. > > Exploitablity is a fun good word, and I never see a person like Bruce > Schneier talk about it (how fucking awesome is exploitability). So > reading people like Bruce Schneier you only get half the picture. > We exist only because the carbon based chemistry is exploitable to the > x900000. If carbon where less exploitable, like silice, maybe life > will not exist. Similary, maybe you need exploitability to have a > internet. You very well might. But never before have the stakes been this high. As Spenser is so fond of quoting Clausewitz: you plan not for your enemy's intentions, but for his capabilities. In the next 3 years, it will become possible to build an autonomously navigating aircraft that can a) cross the Atlantic and b) carry a nuclear weapon. The surveillance someone advocates in another posting won't help you there; your first warning will be "Manhattan goes boom". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
