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“I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in itself--the job was a pure masterpiece. Working on it, I realized in my guts how an artist or an author can get high on the creative act. The poker who wrote Precipice's original tapeworm was pretty good, but you could theoretically have killed it without shutting down the net--that is, at the cost of losing thirty or forty billion bits of data. Which I gather they were just about prepared to do when I showed up. But mine...Ho, no! That, I cross my heart, cannot be killed without DISMANTLING the net.”

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Book:The Shockwave Rider
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“Either Internet or Privacy (Cybersecurity 101, Sonnet) The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored. Paranoia of cybersecurity only ruins sanity, it does nothing to establish security. No technology that's connected to the internet is unhackable, either you can have internet or privacy. So, don't post family pictures online, keep your passwords moderately complex, refrain from consentless content, cloud is the last place to be private.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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“The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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“If the combination of mindless, profit-seeking algorithms, dedicated geopolitical adversaries, and corrupt US opportunists over the past few years has taught us anything, it is that serious applied thinking is a form of critical infrastructure. The best hackers are masters of applied thinking, and we cannot afford to ignore them.”

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Book:Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
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