Your Naive Love of Privacy Must End
Posted Jul 07, 2007
Read a great piece in the Guardian about Dr. Yair Sharan, who has an unusually grim picture of the future he'd like to share with you:
...suicide bombers remote-controlled by brain-chip implants and carrying nano-technology cluster bombs, or biological compounds for which there is no antidote.
It is hard to imagine how we are supposed to prepare for such a future, but Sharan, who presented his dire predictions to an audience of spook industry bigwigs last week, has some idea about what the US and its allies should do about it.
"Europe is naive with its love of privacy," he told The Register. "It's the weak point in the chain."
Curiously, Dr. Sharan is on the Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board -- you can read his bio here -- and he's written quite a number of interesting documents, including this:
Yair has a special interest in the security field and has completed studies in topics like "Non Conventional Terrorism", "Psychological Deterrence", "Emerging Technologies" and "Future Threats of Terrorism", "Issues in water security", and more.
More nuggets of paranoid wisdom from the Register article:
We get a better-educated class of terrorists these days, he told the conference, while sci/tech advances can quickly find their way into irresponsible hands, or "proliferate" through the forces of globalisation. Not only that, technology is always smaller and cheaper, making it inevitable that bad people are going to get their hands on some bad-ass weaponry.
Most bizarre of all his predictions is "the recruitment of huge numbers of suicidal candidates - human bombs - by mind control techniques".
Brain chip implants could create a more obedient servant than conventional techniques like hypnosis: "Imagine that this suicide bomber is remote controlled and cannot give up, even if he wants," warned Sharan.
Considering that Sharan is an Israeli, there's also some delicious irony -- considering the Mossad pioneered the use of remote-controlled bombs for assassination:
Even remote controlled toys might be used to deliver dangerous payloads into crowded places like supermarkets, he said.
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