From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:31:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:

> 
> I've had a substantially better idea.  Hang carbon-fiber bundles from the 
> ceiling, which are charged to about 10,000 volts when an intrusion is 
> detected.  They'll glom onto anything conductive within their range, and 
> anyone with the bad fortune to be breaking into the house at that moment 
> _might_ live to regret it.  (resistors could be added to limit the current 
> to non-fatal but exceedingly painful levels.

Cutting off the power supply would render this method useless very
quickly. Oh, so you are going to use batteries? That "when an intrusion is
detected" part sounds rather interesting... Wouldn't be too hard to either
befuddle.

The point is:
	- You cannot be alert at all times.
	- Even if you can, you cannot cover all possibilities with a 100%
	ensurance of safety.

IOW, if a 'pre-dawn unannounced ninja raid' [sic] occurs on you, you are
pretty well beat, if only because the other side knows what they are doing
and you have no idea of their plans.

The only protection against lawlessness is not lawlessness, it is reason.

- -- Elliot

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