Naughty E-Toys Require New Laws
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   Posted by Eleanor White on January 31, 1998 at 08:22:46:

   Imagine this: It has been announced publicly that
   the police will be installing electromagnetic pulse
   weapons in their helicopters to stop fleeing cars.
   (Dan Rather, CBS news, Dec. 9/97.)

   Suppose a hacker gets hold of one such weapon or
   builds one, and has fun stalling car engines on a
   highway, and in so doing causes accidents. Even
   worse, suppose the hacker targets AIRCRAFT.

   Suppose a hacker uses one of the already announced
   commercially available (1998) acoustic heterodyne
   "speaker" systems, which can project sound
   considerable distances and not have it heard until
   it contacts a solid object, as a harassment tool
   against a neighbour he/she isn't fond of.
   (Electronic Business Today, Feb. 1997, p. 20)

   Suppose a hacker gets hold of one of the already
   publicly announced (by Oak Ridge Labs) US Dept.
   of Justice beam weapons that can overheat a targetted
   victim, or make him see 'stars', or make him convulse,
   and uses that against someone the hacker doesn't like.
   (ORNL Less-than-Lethal weapons project for National
   Institute of Justice, September 1993.)

   Suppose a hacker gets hold of one of the new, small
   "millimeter wave" thru-the-wall radar sets and watches
   other people involuntarily through their walls in their
   most intimate moments. (Used during the Roby, IL,
   standoff by the IL State Police on Shirley Allan,
   autumn 1997)

   Suppose that stalker can tell if you are home from
   outside the house, and in fact, can tell if you are
   alone. (Jan. 19, 1998 article about a personnel
   tracking device effective through trees, snow, rock,
   or concrete, which remotely detects the human heart-
   beat, Washington Post)

   Suppose a hacker builds his own copy of the U.S. Air
   Force's voice-carried-on-radar-signal device used to
   scare birds from runways, but instead of birds, he
   targets YOU, keeping you awake with inescapable
   chatter transmitted directly inside your skull, and there
   is no way you can turn it off. (Aviation Week, March 10,
   1997.)

   These are unclassified, ALREADY AVAILABLE devices
   and there is no doubt that hackers who are not part
   of law enforcement will be using them for 'revenge'
   or 'recreational' purposes before long. (I've personally
   been the target for a couple of these.)

   The point is this:

   IT IS HIGH, HIGH TIME FOR LEGISLATORS
   TO DESIGN NEW LAWS DEALING WITH NEW
   WEAPONS WHICH LEAVE NO TRACE. At present,
   no trace means no case.

   I know, I've complained to police and been told that
   because there were no physical traces, they could not
   help me. There is a need for new evidence rules, at
   the least.

   Eleanor White P.Eng., VE3LKE
   430 Cumberland Ave. #312
   Hamilton, Ontario L8M 3M9
   Canada
   Days: 905-545-6488
   Evgs: 905-547-9904
   Email: raven1@nas.net