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RE: Exactly 500 word essay on "Why hacking is cool, so that Marcus changes his web site"
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn () artimi com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:40:56 +0100
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From: Theo Winter Sent: 19 September 2005 15:03
Dave Aitel wrote:["essay" deleted]Very interesting reality you live in. Do you also have unicorns there
It took you over a week to think up that tired old flame/cliche?
And just out of curiosity: Did you ever actually read Brave New World or at least read a summary? Because, man, writing something like "Brave New World-like monitoring tools"...
Perhaps you misread his article, or misunderstood it. He was _not_ in favour of them. "Brave New World" seems to me to be a perfectly good analogy for the way in which many modern governments and/or security services seem to imagine (or at least, present their case for creating these monitoring systems as if they seem to imagine) that we would all live in a happy peacful utopia, if only we were all tagged, controlled, stamped, numbered and monitored in everything we do and everywhere we go; Dave's point was that this outward guise would be an illusion covering up what would in fact in reality be a dystopian nightmare. Alright, maybe a George Orwell fan could insist that 1984 would be a better comparison. But I still think you missed his point. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
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