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Police Drones Threaten Rights; Man Builds Robots for Resistance; Cyber Attacks on Palestine News Websites
Police Use of Drones May Threaten Human Rights: UN Expert. “An armed drone, controlled by a human from a distance, can hardly do what police officers are supposed to do—use the minimum force required by the circumstances,” Christof Heyns, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, told a UN General Assembly committee Wednesday. The right to life and human dignity must be considered above any added value of giving police these unmanned weapons, he said.
Meet The Man Who’s Building Robots For Political Resistance. Csikszentmihalyi became a professor at the MIT Media Lab back in 2001, and as he observed drones take over warfare and military interests dominate robotics research, he decided to fight back. He built a fabric-wing UAV built of household products (hence devoid of military DNA), a four-wheeled telepresence robot designed to observe wars being fought, and a robotic kayak designed to protest at Guantanamo.
News Websites Knocked Offline By Internet Attackers. The Electronic Intifada was forced offline for more than six hours on Monday by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This came days after IMEMC (International Middle East Media Center), another Palestine-focused online publication, was subjected to a similar attack.
