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I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/06/i-could-kill-you-consumer-drone/139012/
16•bookofjoe•1h ago

Comments

functionmouse•1h ago
Yeah but you won't so it's not a big problem

We can't orchestrate our society around what someone "could" do

You could kill me with a rock easier than you could kill me with a drone

ares623•33m ago
We absolutely can, we absolutely should, and we absolutely have been doing that.

When I get on a bus with other people, I can, with a fairly high degree of certainty, rest assured that the other passengers will not just randomly kill me to get something from me. That's because the people, just like me, have some level of comfort and their basic needs being met.

The further we slide away from that, the higher the risk for everyone. And to maintain that needs constant work, from everyone.

JumpCrisscross•24m ago
You both agree. What keeps someone from killing you on a bus is a combination of norms, morals and deterrence. The same apply to drone murder.

Norms and morals apply almost equally to murder by drone versus e.g. poisoning someone. The difference is largely in deterrence, i.e. having a clearly-communicated capability to find anyone who tries to pull this off.

sleepyguy•11m ago
>You could kill me with a rock easier than you could kill me with a drone

How about dropping a rock from a drone so it isn't up close and personal.

boofus•20m ago
I could kill you with a consumer knife too. What's your point?
eddd-ddde•13m ago
I can run away from a knife holding psycho or fight back, a drone can fly into my bedroom. Same argument for guns really.
comrade1234•17m ago
Good luck getting an explosive payload to where I live.
comrade1234•7m ago
Society degrades from war. People that were in warfare shouldn't be allowed back into normal life. Even with a just war, like with Ukraine defending themselves from Russia, the soldiers coming back from the front are killing their wives.

I don't think there's a solution. I've worked on projects in the USA trying to predict behavior changes in veterans that lead to murder/suicide and it's just not possible.

Just try to avoid people that have been in warfare - don't hire them, don't date them, they're broken and can't be fixed.

doug_life•6m ago
Note this is from 2017
datadrivenangel•6m ago
"Meanwhile, on the military side, the Pentagon is still buying Boeing Scan Eagles at hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop when they can buy a similar capability for only a few thousand dollars at a local hobby shop."

1.Your local hobby shop drone will not be able to fly for 20 hours like a fixed wing Scan Eagle. Bad comparison. 2. Modifying drones to be used for combat is cheap if you don't count the labor cost, and in relative peace time counting the labor costs and overall cost of fielding a system is fair. If you take a $5,000 consumer drone and want it to *reliably* explode on someone, at small volumes that will likely take enough labor time to verify, let alone certify, that it pushes the price up to closer to the price of the new dedicated loitering munitions...

nullc•2m ago
I could kill you with a pen.

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