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Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Able Because Better Cause Caused Computer Cracks Crime Damage Eager Even Far Far Less Human Hysteria Information Less Much Network Our Perhaps Protected Public Railroad Scared Someone System Than Then Train Who Why Willing

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Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Age-Old Approval Cracking Down Hacker Officials Playing Political Public Ritual Threat Up Who Win

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I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Always Am Attraction Bug Dreamed Earth Escape Ever Feel Fiction Force Here Like Lot Makes Me Might Much Piece Planet Planet Earth Reaching Read Say Science Science Fiction Seriously Since Somehow Stuck Tape Teenage Teenage Years Too Took Traps Used Velocity Years You I Am

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Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Comedy Enough Get Just Live Long Misery Over Over It Stuff

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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Believe Development Factor Government Limiting Money New New Technologies Personally Primary Rather Technologies Tends Than I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: May 9th, 1945

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