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October 16, 2007 in Ideas

Tom at UrbanAgora: Folks, if every bit of data on everything is available, it will include ways of subverting the systems to cause events that will make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. Very shortly, the continued existence of civilization is going to depend on the good-will of script-kiddies.

Read the whole thing. Read the comments. Then go to Mike Taht’s blog, where I found the link to Tom and his thoughts here. A nice bonus is Mike’s Open letter to the mainstream media, particularly CNBC. Interesting thinking and reading there too.

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