June 17, 2004

  • 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."

    And, according to Sterling, they are fully utilizing the technology.

    "These are not all old-school hackers. This is organized crime activity. They are profit driven," he said. "These are crooks. The crooks that in the future that are going to elbow the hobbyist kids aside and settle in for a nice, long vampire slurp from our e-commerce."


        - internetnews.com


    Damn.  Negative publicity.  And here I was about to open a CafePress Xanga merchandise store to slurp, I mean, sip from a small revenue stream flowing from the great Xanga Empire.



                XangaMug: $10.99


     



           XangaDog Shirt: $13.99



                *mmm* : $12.99


     

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