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Cliff Stoll has to be the most lovable crank of the modern day. I actually feel like he was overall correct about the societal implications of technology while
by hotpotamus 4y ago
Cliff Stoll has to be the most lovable crank of the modern day. I actually feel like he was overall correct about the societal implications of technology while being amazingly wrong on almost every detail. And he's far from a fool - he famously developed quite a lot of network security/intrusion detection ability back in the 80's when it was first getting going.
- jhbadger 4y agoAnd some of his criticisms of the details were right but we just decided to accept the problems. For example, he thought e-commerce wouldn't take off because hackers would just steal the credit card info from e-retailers. They do, but people have just accepted that every few years they'll have their credit card info compromised and have to go through an ordeal of cancelling the card and getting a new one.