Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Jul 27 12:34:47 2001

>
> You're right, Mike, but people who trespassing onto the "attractive nuissance"
> should be shot before they drown.
>
> You have YOUR stuff and I have MINE. You have your private space and I have
> mine. I have both the right and responsibility to protect my private space and
> my property. The courts have upheld the property owner's right to apply deadly
> force in protecting his/her own life/property. This presents an option to other
> forms of population/pest control that some might find attractive. Now all we
> need is a way to transmit deadly force over the internet.
>
Have you read Neuromance by William Gibson? In the book they have computer
protection called "Black ICE" which can kill someone trying to break into a
computer over the network.. The novel was written *long* before the internet
we know today.

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 12:34:47 BST