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The world isn't short of homicidal maniacs. All that is needed is a perverse ideological motivation and a single person could, theoretically, cause unprecedente
by c3534l 9y ago
The world isn't short of homicidal maniacs. All that is needed is a perverse ideological motivation and a single person could, theoretically, cause unprecedented harm.
- crpatino 9y agoThe thing is when you have two or more pretty unlikely traits as required components of X, X's likelyhood becomes negligible. That's why the weapons of choice for homicidal maniacs are everyday tools like kitchen knives or baseball clubs. Even the use of handguns sugest the involvement of a more purpose-driven kind of homicidal. So, IMHO, what you need to fear is not a hacker going homicidal. Rather, it is the raise of a black market of "assasination thru tech"; specially if there's enough separation of labour so that unethical but otherwise non-violent hackers can enable the efforts of conventional assassins in order to accomplish their grim deeds.