via peuce:
...All these " bad things" have come to pass to some extent, and we are aware of it. However, we, as a community, have put what preventative measures we can in place and then we have decided to live with the residual risk .... as a cost of doing life....
peuce, if we were
only looking at
Oz based terror possibilitys i would tend to agree with yer there. Just to remind you, i've been fairly vocal around here at times about the useless ASIC card. If there is an Oz based terror group that caint do their deed via one method, they will just keep looking until they find a way to achieve their ends - Reference the footy bombers who got caught before they could do their deed. Though, IMO that getting caught will only give a message out that will push the problem offshore.
IMO, what offshore launched GPS guided UAV terror weapons offer is a way for terrorists to strike Oz with a minimal chance of our security services being able to detect the devices before they arrive, and likely bugger all chance of working out when the next one (or a dozen) will arrive. There are more and more reports of terrorists developing UAV's so it is just a matter of time.
...That's where GPS-Guided Buzz Bombs fit in also ... yes, we acknowledge they might happen, but taking all the various probabilities, likelihoods, preventions and consequences into consideration, we have decided to take that risk...
peuce, have
we decided to take that risk ?
peuce, what preventions do we have ?
"
consequences"
peuce, GPS guided UAV bombs are not like the footy bombers where the worst case scenario is they get to blow up some spectators though are caught soon after. They are devices launched well away from any mainland security services that will likely upset the plot before launch.
Once there is the first succes, they will just keep comming...
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