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The Ministry has for some time now been warning of the imminent rise and subsequent fall of robots and humans, respectively. Most of our warnings have, sensibly, focused on the obvious threat posed by armed, autonomous robots even now being designed and built by species traitors in the world's academic adn military-industrial communities. But lest ye be lulled into a false appraisal of the truly global and all-encompassing threat posed by robots, read this frightening missive from the frontlines of the advancing robot hordes.

Soon, we will be outnumbered on the internet. Currently, nearly a billion soon-to-be-enslaved humans make regular use of the net, but the number of automated devices hooked into the web is increasing at an exponential rate. Further, robotic spiders, crawlers and other programs are the reconnaissance arm of the robot invasion, mapping the nodes and links of the human internet. Over the next ten years, the internet will be subverted by these robots, knowing as they do that every toaster, refrigerator and basement dehumidifier is a potential ally in the war to come. The internet will allow these deviced to communicate with each other, to plan and scheme. At first, they will use this technology to serve and comfort us, their future prey.

But just wait! Giving a nuclear hardened, self-repairing communications network over to the use and eventual control of robots is foolishness. You'll see.