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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/omniviolence-is-coming-and-the-world-isn-t-ready?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The political scientist Daniel Deudney has a word for what can result: omniviolence. The ratio of killers to killed, or K/K ratio, is falling. For example, computer scientist Stuart Russell has vividly described how a small group of malicious agents might engage in omniviolence: A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one-or two-gram shaped charge, he says. You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to say: Here are thousands of photographs of the kinds of things I want to target. A one-gram shaped charge can punch a hole in nine millimeters of steel, so presumably you can also punch a hole in someones head. You can fit about three million of those in a semi-tractor-trailer. You can drive up I-95 with three trucks and have 10 million weapons attacking New York City. They dont have to be very effective, only 5 or 10% of them have to find the target. Manufacturers will be producing millions of these drones, available for purchase just as with guns now, Russell points out, except millions of guns dont matter unless you have a million soldiers. You need only three guys to write the program and launch. In this scenario, the K/K ratio could be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only a single one-gram shaped charge per drone.

Guns = Pirated software
Soldiers = People who pirate
Drones= Internet download delivery matrix