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That's because it's too hard to get away with it. Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

• montagg 4y ago
  It'll go both ways. All ways. The US is going to have its own version of [The Troubles][1] by 2033. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
• throw74774 4y ago
  Why won’t the police be supplied with countermeasures and drones of their own?
  • Teever 4y ago
    Short of a ubiquitous gorgon stare[0] level of surveillance, how do you stop someone from deploying an autonomous drone with facial recognition that hunts down a particular individual? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
    • prepend 4y ago
      Don’t drones require registration in the US? So any event like this will become a cyber investigation. And for the first one likely even considered domestic terrorism so it would use the NSA’s gorgon stare to trace back the purchaser and operator.
      • Teever 4y ago
        As the article says anyone can buy a drone from aliexpress or build their own.
        • prepend 4y ago
          But then it should be pretty easy to detect unregistered drones when they hit the air. And again, I think if someone built their own drone from parts, the surveillance drag net would be able to trace down purchases.
          • foxyv 3y ago
            Below 100 feet it is remarkably difficult to detect and stop a drone in time to defend an attack. Especially since they can be fully automated, have onboard inertial measuring units and computer vision. Your best defense would be hunter killer drones over high value targets or trained birds. But defense always lags offense. Guided missiles used to be an expensive proposition. Now they are off the shelf parts for a couple thousand on digikey.
• rasz 4y ago
  At the point you decide hurting people is ok you are usually mentally unstable enough to not be aware or care. People this bad in the head end up shooting up a school, or like the last SS/swastika tattoo sporting Texas neo Nazi attack a mall in predominantly white neighborhood. Mindless violence combined with suicide by cops. Somehow we seem to be past the IRA/Baader–Meinhof politically motivated organized groups, and deep into incel suicides. You wont find Carlos the Jackal in the west outside movie screens.