The Final Details

 This will be the final bit of information I will explain in these blogs, as this one will cover all the illegal things that have happened and explain why the main characters never contacted the police. Now there are multiple instances where Physanto kidnaps someone and nothing with the government is done, no police phone call, no complaints are ever filed. Well, it is to be assumed that Physanto has bought out any government offices that they would have problems with and were probably assassinated by one of their associates. They get away with it so easily as also no one tried to go to court with them as in a legal battle the side with the most money and influence can sway the entire court on jurors and judges. Most likely this scenario has happened all over the world, though those cases become very hush-hush and are not publicly announced, unlike other court cases. 

Another very obvious illegal thing that happened casually was a Trojan horse virus, though there are multitudes of viruses out there like browser hijackers, and file infectors. Trojan horses are just exactly what you hear, but when you click a link, email, file, or even photographs. In the show, the group of protagonists sends a Trojan horse virus to the director of communications which they start stealing his files. Sending a virus to someone can be considered destruction of property, though this is in Australia the U.S has the Patriot Act (section 814) that makes it illegal to spread computer viruses but not create them. Though they have laws against many hacking like DDosing, electronic theft, and phishing. All are illegal and punishable in Australian law and are what the protagonists do to ruin the director of communications in Australia. 

The Difference of Destruction

 

Previously I have used the term WMD, in other posts not giving a generalization of why that's inheritable bad. The abbreviation W.M.D is short for Weapons of Mass Destruction and rightfully named so. Few weapons exist in this damage the get that title but it's enough to warrant international attention. There are three types of W.M.Ds in the world: Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear. Each will be explained and will show how the toxic gas in the show is considered a WMD. 

First, biological WMDs, the first instance of those were the smallpox blankets back in the 1700s given to the natives. They are generally easy to create which is their biggest threat, they attack via contact of skin, gastrointestinal, and pulmonary. These attacks are made from bacterial agents, anthrax, or Q fever. People who make these are usually alone and not aligned with a group in a particular way.

Chemical weapons have been around since the old Chinese Dynasties, with things like arsenic gas being used. Other gases like in both World Wars are considered WMDs too considering the amount of damage and casualties they caused. Though not as efficient as biological weapons, the gas in The Code is more close to a chemical weapon than a biological one. 

Last is Nuclear weapons, those are the ones that everyone is scared of and have sirens at the ready to try and leave the area. The gas in The Code is between Nuclear (as it came from Nuclear waste) and chemical as it was in the form of an easy-to-move gas. That's types of weapons are what makes areas, homes, and cities uninhabitable for a long time, just like Chernobyl.