"Our own information — from the everyday to the deeply personal — is being weaponized against us with military efficiency," warned Cook.
Our own information, from the every day to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency.
But efforts to deploy the unmanned aircraft have frequently drawn fierce criticism from privacy advocates or police critics for whom the devices stir Orwellian visions of inappropriate — or illegal — surveillance and fears of military-grade, weaponized drones patrolling the skies.
By Evan Ratliff One military expert calls weaponized robots "the future of warfare".
The event — titled "Defending Democracy: Civilian and Military Responses to Weaponized Information" — was the fourth annual Veterans Summit, held previously at Yale and West Point.
At present no effective vaccines exist for preventing infections from glanders, brucellosis, staphylococcal enterotoxin B, ricin, or T-2 mycotoxins all biological agents that some countries have researched for military use or have weaponized in the past.
"The average person on the street, and even intelligent and informed people, when they think of the word 'drone,' they think of the military, they think hostile, they think weaponized, they think large and they think autonomous," Michael Toscano, president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, told Breaking Defense.
Mr. Netanyahu said this week that the Revolutionary Guards had moved advanced weapons to Syria, including ground-to-ground missiles, weaponized drones and Iranian antiaircraft batteries that he said would threaten Israel's military jets.
As Yellen implied, we need more spending of the non-military kind (what Barney Frank memorably called "weaponized Keynesianism" doesn't stimulate).
Today, this conflation of the U.S. military and law enforcement is commonplace and often weaponized against dissenters of police violence.
