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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (17617)	11/25/2006 8:34:31 AM
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"Could it be that this is the sort of thing, in the article below, that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is concerned about?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Probably. But I believe that the means have always existed for Bad Actors to transmit information required to do Bad Things. The 'net just makes it trivially easy for those with resonant mindsets to disseminate and access the content. The nuclear proliferation cat is out of the bag, and has been for years. Asian journals have been following the misadventures of A.Y. Khan for almost a decade (I recall posting articles in 2001), and only lately has the west become aware. To those nations that want The Bomb, I say "Good luck". Use it, and chances are you'll be reduced to a smoking ruin, yourself: if not by your enemy, by your enemy's friend. MAD is still a powerful disincentive. But why resort to such extraordinary expense and difficulty? A truck full of ammonium nitrate with a sprinkling of plutonium or radioactive waste, a jet plane used as a guided missile, biological agents in the water supply, the mail, or carefully inserted into the food distribution chain can cause immense havoc. Or sarin in the subways. Or bombs on the bus. Pick your mayhem. The information is out there, being transmitted and received in various ways. It's unstoppable, and the only check or constraint is some sort of humane regard, or fear, for the consequences of its use. Sir Tim joins a not-too-select company of those who strain to close the barn door, long after the horse has bolted. Too late, Tim. And quite likely, never possible in the first place. Jim