Most Dangerous Week Ever

Hard to top the week that bin Laden bought it, but there?s been some scary stuff these last five days. Corporate spycraft from the people who brought you Blackwater. Space plane makers making drones. The world?s tiniest explosives detector, powered by bee venom proteins. Raven mini-drone agonistes. Crowdsourced counterpiracy experiments. Global power balances that depend on access to rare earth metals. Ever wanted to know what a war really sounds like? Or go hands-free to control robots and read satellite data? We got you.

But there?s so much more bin Laden mystery to chew over. Dude?s dead, but some in Congress want to make sure every day on the calendar is 9/11. Osama was embarrassed by a jihadi magazine?s monster truck of doom. His death doesn?t seem to be causing the Taliban to quit, though it did cause the Pakistani military to throw a hissy fit on the Afghanistan border. And, of course, you always knew bin Laden was a wanker, but now you have proof. (Unless it?s an elaborate CIA psyop, but whatever.)

Inevitably, there will be more revelations from the bin Laden intelligence trove next week, so we leave you, in anticipation, with your imagination. Kind of like bin Laden in his Abbotabad compound and the contents of his hard drives.

Spencer Ackerman is Danger Room's senior reporter, based out of Washington, D.C., covering weapons of doom and the strategies they're used to implement.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/most-dangerous-week-ever-27/

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