The 7 Things I Know About Cyber Security After 25 Years | April 2024
Luddism 2.0
1. Luddism 2.0,
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web
Andrés Guadamuz
SCRIPT Centre for Research in IP and Technology Law
University of Edinburgh
9. “There’s a set of rules that
anything that was in the world
when you were born is normal
and natural. Anything invented
bet ween when you were 15 and
35 is new and revolutionary
and exciting, and you’ll probably
get a career in it. Anything
invented after you’re 35 is
against the natural order of
things.”
11. “For the net we work on, the digital
connections our government seeks to
spread as a universal right, the keyboards
in our homes, are blights as well as boons.
We won’t automatically be better with no
books to finger and caress. We aren’t
better for grisly YouTube grimaces from
Downing Street, or Obama t wittering
away when he could be thinking. Before
there were computer disks to steal from
the fees office, there was privacy, secrecy
and supposed decency undisturbed.”
12. “Of course, we do not know whether
the current increase in autism is due
more to increased awareness and
diagnosis of autism, or whether it
can - if there is a true increase - be in
any way linked to an increased
prevalence among people of spending
time in screen relationships. Surely it
is a point worth considering”
14. Dystopian future
Minimal public funds for
research
No broadband investment
Draconian IP legislation
Sur veillance society
Real cybercrime ignored...
