[FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

[Marcus Daniels]

I was thinking of the case where a NATO member state doesn't want to threaten their natural gas from Russia but would still like to see Putin's ambitions complicated.  They could visit a web site and arrange to delegate some hardware resource to their favorite Ukrainian militia, general, or some other NGO.  But it would be important to keep their fingerprints off the operation.  
Or it could be some rich folks in Hollywood or New York decides someone in Iran has to go, and they put together a bake sale paid in an appropriate cryptocurrency. 
At some level, the latter probably happens anyway, but this would cut out the relevant senator.  

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 12:40 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

I think there's an interesting problem in there somewhere. You need a platform from which to launch ... a plane, boat, MLRS, etc. And even after we get self-[driving|flying] platforms, there's still 2 parts to the hardware, the reusable part and the disposable part. I can imagine Amazon-branded murder vehicles, with anonymous ammunition, vice versa, or both. But the components of the platforms might still each bear a brand ... Firestone tires, Pratt & Whitney engines, etc. To anonymize everything seems difficult. But maybe you're not talking about unbranded components ... only anonymized customers? So, you're just some unfortunate, hard-working ISIS shleb trying to bring about the Caliphate and when you see the missiles coming, you don't know if it's Germany or the US who sent them ... only that Amazon made it happen?

On 2/25/22 12:25, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I mean when some organization wants a fast-to-deploy suite of hardware options, but they don't want to own it / put a brand or flag on it.
> Murder microservices?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 12:20 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions
> 
> Don't we already have murder-as-a-service in the form of orgs like Triple Canopy?
> 
> On 2/25/22 11:09, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Since the new trend is *-as-a-service, it seems that there ought to be metal benders like LM and GD that resell their hardware like AWS does.
>> Crowdsourced cruise missiles, etc.
> 

-- 
glen
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.


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