Quote #6

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

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  1. Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
  2. The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists k…
  3. Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
  4. More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
  5. ... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
  6. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of c…
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