The nonprofit Human Rights Watch announced 17 of 47 companies it beseeched to end sales of land mine components had done so. They targeted others, including GE, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon for future action including possible boycotts.
Some electronics companies claim their chips are so ubiquitous they can be used anywhere.
U.S. land mine production was halted last year. The DOE's Computer Incident Advisory division announced the AOL4FREE program, long a rumored virus, is now a real one which will erase your hard drive. A Tampa FL man, to ensure his brother found his house, mounted a fake bomb on his mailbox consisting of orange tubes, a flashing light, a 'TNT' label, and a buzzer which startled the visiting bomb squad when it went off. He was arrested for placing a hoax device in public. There's even a site where you can send an E-mail of outrage to Tandy.