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HIGH-TECH CRIMES REVEALED: CYBERWAR STORIES FROM THE DIGITAL FRONT
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HIGH-TECH CRIMES REVEALED: CYBERWAR STORIES FROM THE DIGITAL FRONT

by Steven Branigan
August 2004
Beginner
448 pages
7h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Foreword

I once read a science fiction story that had the premise that one could purchase at the local hardware store for $200 the supplies needed to build a laser powerful enough to slice the earth in two. The author (I wish I could remember his name) proposed that in a world with such individual power, people would be highly respectful of the rights of others. My conclusion is that the world would be sliced into numerous pieces shortly after the technology was released.

This is not simple cynicism; I say this because we have seen what some Internet users have done with unrestrained access to most of the Internet. We have already run the experiment on a small scale, and it jibes with the observation that the larger the crowd, the more wackos ...

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