Computers as weapons

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Mon May 7 14:26:45 2001

Chuck McManis wrote:
>
> Get rid of people who thing killing a fellow human being is a reasonable
> course of action and gun control is a non-issue. Getting rid of guns will
> only force those looney tunes to use other (often more effective)
> techniques to kill you.
>
> Sigh,
> --Chuck

I know somebody who killed someone. Not with a gun, either. He didn't
and doesn't feel it was reasonable at all. Just unavoidable. I have
reason to believe critical evidence was withheld or destroyed, but at
any rate, the jury didn't agree, and he's serving a life sentence for
murder. It could have been at lot worse. A trial would matter little to
a dead man.

I'm going to suggest that this is an unproductive thread that will
generate a lot more heat than light. There's nothing much that can be
said one way or the other on this subject that isn't going to be
inflammatory to many. There are better places for this.

Trying to get in something at least a little on-topic, I've heard of
people being killed accidently by industrial robots and such, or the
prospect of the imminent demise of hospital patients due to script
kiddies screwing around with medical records databases or life support
equipment, but does anyone know of an instance where a computer was used
to kill someone? Including military or intelligence cases?

jbdigriz
Received on Mon May 07 2001 - 14:26:45 BST