Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:40:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <3BC73924.77F9B910@mindspring.com> References: <1002817787.3bc5c8fbddbfd@webmail.neomedia.it>
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > "Dangerous" technologies, that is, the precise details of how to _work_ eg > plutonium to make a bomb out of it, *should* be kept secret. Alas, this is > not always possible, but they should. Unless you are a moron, if you have a B.S. in Physical Chemistry, you will be able to work out how to do the processing with a standard sub-$1000 lab furnace. There are tons of people currently out of work in varios nations who might feel that a ptotato in the pot was worth disclosing the information. In any case, it doesn't matter: everyone who we are afraid of getting the weapons already has the information, they just can't readily apply it for lack of materials. > > The way we control such things is to control the availability > > of the critical raw materials very, very carefully. One of > > the reasons we have been so careful to court Pakistan and > > Uzbekistan must be that they are Afghanistan's neighbors, and > > are both members of "the nuclear club". > > Yup. I had left out one of the most important details. This is the only important detail. You can't contain knowledge for forever: you can only slow it, and in the larger context, you can't even do that. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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