Arising_uk wrote:TSBU wrote:...
I don't want to talk about that, suppose that he has not been caught yet in months, that's the hypo, if you can't imagine that, thanks for your answer.
He's using the internet, he has to have access, he has to use a service provider, he has to pay, he has to have a place to burn his computer, he has to pay, he has to meet landlords, motel clerks, etc, etc, he's leaving a financial trail, a location trail and a face-to-face recognition trail, sooner or later he'll get caught. Serial killers can and have operated for years but using a computer and the internet to advertise will shorten his lifespan considerably if the authorities get serious about catching him.
I steal lots of computers (easy). I wait two years.
I go to a place with free wifi in the street (Or I use any wifi from a house, it's usually easy), and I connect, I write a programm "in 48 hours, go to that site and post this", I also set a small "bomb" prepared to burn the computer in 48 hours and one minute (if you think that 48 hours are too much for a battery, you can easily make that time bigger), I get out of the place, I may go to another city.
48 hours later, the post is sent, police identifies that post as a "killer" post, they quickly know where did the post came from.
Well, they get to a street, say 5 minutes after the post is sent, they find a burned computer, so they can't see the program (and even if they could, that would only tell them that the killer has been there 48 hours later, they can ask people "have you seen a person with a computer two days ago?".
But, ok, I'm not interested in how difficult it is, suppose that it happens, and if you can't imagine that, then you have your answer (that can't happen), Your answer can be "waiting for police" too, if you can imagine the situation but you think that it's too difficult to stay in that situation for a long time.
I'm interested in what would you say to the killer, that's what is interesting to me, you can imagine the rest as you wish.
(Oh, and I said "I" in that example, because it's easier to write that way XD, but... I'm not a murderer. I think people want to see me in this post like a murderer, cause this post deals with a big buuble in lot of heads, and when people see somone who have different thoughts in ethics, or something that touches their deeper feelings, they quickly put the label "enemy"). I think that ethics are for most of people, a bubble, a big bubble, they don't think much in how to deal with things. There is a famous experiment about obedience, it's kinda famous, Milgram experiment... well, I see this thread similar to that. (clue! XD)