It has become clear to me now that Y2K is behind us, the new theme for 2000
is computer paranoia. I don't think I've ever heard so much mainstream
squawk or seen so many security expert websites pop up so fast ever before
than lately. And why not, the stakes have increased have they not? It used
to be an academic society that tinkered around writing code to communicate
more efficiently with a strong sense of community. Now the vast body of it
resembles more of a commercial spamming meat-market bangkok running on
ghastly over-bloated code running brand-new state of the art applications
through a couple of narrow straws (aka browsers) while people peep through
narrower and narrower holes. What's next? I can hardly wait until the
lawyers and governments finish with all of their hack attacks and propoganda
so everyone can be so scared that anti-terrorist laws are passed in the
cyber realm to the point where a malfunctioning ethernet card which
accidentally sent three malformed packets to the wrong ip, or you told some
chick she has a nice breast stroke lands you in prison. And when that
happens, that's the day I disconnect the stupid wire leading to my house and
start stringing cans in houses around the neighborhood and call it CANnet
(complete with CAN-mail, CAN-commerce, CAN-trade, CAN-fax). Am I bitter?
Nah, I enjoy downloading a few good terabytes of lesbo-animal porn off
Usenet and banging fat chicks from AOL from time to time, and obsessivly
blowing people's heads off in ten hour spurts of psychotic 3d killing spree
frenzies (like Unreal Tournament! woo) just like everyone else. But
seriously, I think people ought to burn their credit cards, and maybe
instead of developing 2GB encryption, go see someone face-to-face about
important matters..maybe mellow out once in awhile-- maybe pull the plug on
your computer once in awhile. Yes, I have been around on the Internet for a
long ass time and the thing I always liked about it the most was the vast
amount of freedom it had to offer. I hope it stays that way. Until the day
my home system has a robotic UZI attachment, I think I'll still sleep at
night. But you people with a database of 5,000,000 credit cards, and the
evil little kid down the street is after them so he can get a piece of the
action... guess you're SOL ;P
You know, I think it would be funny to set up a computer system with an
Internet connection, register something like hackmehard.com, then start
advertising it as a site with one of every computer type and firewall type
imaginable for people who want to play around breaking into systems so they
can post whatever obscene thing that came out of their illegal minds. Then,
on the hour a robotic arm pulls the plug and an external tape device is
connected, the power button pushed, and all systems restored to 100% sane
system configuration. I wonder if there are any capitol venture firms out
there willing to sponsor it, I bet it would be a huge success!
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