Technology's Impact on Human Dignity

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A simple, easily understood falsehood is much more workable than a complex, impenetrable truth.
"People are looking for certainty, and they don't care where they get it," says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the study of rumours. "They would rather know something for sure, even if that thing for sure is wrong, because it provides them a sense of stability"."
(Time, Oct. 8, 2001)
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

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    Anonymity Tutorial by R a v e N (blacksun.box.sk)

    Speech on cryptography by Chuck Hammill

    Hacker Ethic

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    "all truth goes through three stages, first it is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed, finally it is accepted as self evident"
    Chopenhauer
    (Remember the price people paid if ages ago they dared to claim the earth was round, or that the earth was not the center of the universe. Nowadays Science continues to claim it knows best, yet it is not driven by what's best, but by what suits it's own ends the best. And so science continues to deride the person who places ethics before the greed of science.)

    "When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
    When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
    When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
    Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet." -Rick Kelly