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cyberwarcrime and punishment - by Karina Nguyen

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2049, 28 December. 19:42:34. The robot’s arm suddenly started behaving defiantly. It positioned itself at an unsafe angle and uncooperatively executed the needle pericardial insertion. You try to insert a catheter to drain excess fluid, but it completely ignored your intentions. The surgery is performed remotely, so you have to mobilize another surgical system to replace the current one. But the hospital’s power network is experiencing excessive electrical harmonics, leading to an abrupt power loss. You felt a rapid increase of blood flow in your face, your hands started shaking — something you never experienced before. It is too late for you to do anything or call anyone for help. This is your first patient in your life to die in the operating cube. The patient was a Swedish investigative journalist, who 2 months ago exposed a foreign government’s involvement in the recent assassination of a political figure. You started wondering if those two events are related... 2015, 23 December.

2049, 28 December. 19:42:34. The robot’s arm suddenly started behaving defiantly. It positioned itself at an unsafe angle and uncooperatively executed the needle pericardial insertion. You try to insert a catheter to drain excess fluid, but it completely ignored your intentions. The surgery is performed remotely, so you have to mobilize another surgical system to replace the current one. But the hospital’s power network is experiencing excessive electrical harmonics, leading to an abrupt power loss. You felt a rapid increase of blood flow in your face, your hands started shaking — something…

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