Such an individual with a penchant for electronics can pull together components from a Radio Shack or electronic store – even order the components off of selected Internet websites – and fashion a radio frequency, or RF, weapon. [More]
And insurrectionists are spreading it all over the web!
"Oh, how marvelous! Devastating! Why this could kill millions!" *
Something else Leviathan needs to control, I guess...
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Not exactly "news". I had folks using an improvised system (mounted in pickup trucks) in "Postage Due" (http://www.bussjaeger.org/pd.html) back in '96, long before Schweitzer's '97 congressional testimony. Granted, my gadgets weren't directed RF, but they wreaked havoc on computer systems. In the real world, hobbyists have been playing with magnetron-based RF systems, too; I built my first one back in 2003, and I was working from old designs.
Many years ago, I worked at a technology company near Harvard and MIT. One day, a newly minted MIT Sloan School of Management MBA who had just been hired as VP of Engineering reacted to some horrific incident in the news, and was asking the staff whether there was anything in the building that was a potential threat. I told her that there was at least twenty people with sufficient training and the means to destroy the building with the materials on hand incidental to our business. Her follow-up question was what was preventing them from doing this. My one word answer? "Civilization".
Who needs vehicles with V8 engines?
Who needs anal sex?
Who needs ...
What a sick game to play.
"The only way to win is not to play."
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