[extropy-chat] Bruce Sterling on internet crime

[Damien Broderick]

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3365491


June 8, 2004 The Internet: 'A Dirty Mess' By Roy Mark


WASHINGTON -- The digital revolution has degenerated into an underworld
of organized crime, dirty tactics, black ops and terrorism, said
science fiction writer and cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling Tuesday.

Keynoting a morning session of Gartner's 10th Annual IT Security Summit
here, Sterling said, "This is the birth of a genuine, no kidding,
for-profit, electronic, multi-national criminal world. The global
criminal world of oil, narcotics and guns now has broadband." [etc]