From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 12 11:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC6037B406 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.139.200.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.139.200]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9CIdjd28838; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC73924.77F9B910@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:40:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" , Ted Mittelstaedt , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark References: <1002817787.3bc5c8fbddbfd@webmail.neomedia.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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