Death by Laptop
p2pnet.net News:- When we first featured the Point-Click-Kill "reactive targets" story, we wondered if it might become part of W4 – the World Wide War Web.
It seems in California, online death in real time may be banned, but over in Iraq, US troops will, "soon be able to lace their defensive perimeters with a high-tech, multi-pronged version of one of the most effective weapons in their enemy’s playbook: the remote-controlled bomb," says the Associated Press.
"By June, soldiers in the Army’s Stryker Brigade, which operates mainly in and around the northern city of Mosul, will be able to pick out an individual anti-personnel munition from a minefield of hundreds and explode it by pushing a computer’s touch screen from many yards away.
"The system, known as Matrix, is part of the Army’s emerging arsenal of ’smart’ land mines that military officials say are meant to do away with the accidental deaths and maimings caused by their not-so-smart brethren.
"Twenty-five sets of mines, including M18 Claymores, and the laptops that trigger them over a wireless network are being rushed into the field after the system was successfully tested in September."
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See:-
reactive targets – Point, Click, Kill, p2pnet, Novcembeer 20, 2004
W4 – Meet W4, p2pnet, November 4, 2004
banned – Online death in real time, p2pnet, April 6, 2005
Associated Press – Laptop-Triggered Mines Heading to Iraq, April 12, 2005
April 12th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
nothing new the israelis have been killing terrorists for years with UAV’s
April 13th, 2005 at 1:10 am
“…and the laptops that trigger them over a wireless network…”
Ahahah!
Good one.
So once you jam the frequency over which they operate your good to go?
Dumb dumb dumb…
April 13th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
Gives a new meaning to the term “War Driving”
April 13th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
As usual, a day late and a dollar short. I thought up similar ideas about 10 years ago. Too bad people have to buy a work permit (College degree) via a cartel school in order for their ideas to be taken seriously. I am also willing to bet that the setup and methodology behind this network is also highly classified as if the military researchers are the only one who have the knowlege to put such a network together.