Terrorists Attack Nanotech Labs with Bombs, claiming they fear NanoCyborgs and Gray Goo

A group of self-identified terrorists has sent several mail bombs to nanotechnology labs and researchers in Latin America, injuring two people earlier this month in the engineering department at the Monterrey Institute of Technology outside Mexico City. In an online manifesto, the group calls itself Individualists With Savage Tendencies (this a translation from the Spanish, Individualidades tendiendo a lo salvage, or ITS), and writes about how they are trying to stop a “gray goo” scenario where self-replicating nanobots destroy the world.

ITS says it’s just getting started with its mail bomb campaign, and cites American scientists like Eric Drexler and Bill Joy as major reasons why they came to believe what they do about the future of nanotech. They also say their tactics are inspired by former math professor Ted Kaczinski, who called himself the UNABOMER. Kaczinksi, who wrote a manifesto about how technology is destroying society, killed three people and severely injured several American computer scientists with mail bombs in the 1980s and 90s.

Image from ITS.

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