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avevale_intelligencerThe point has been made.
You do not compel the police to increase their efficiency by publicly announcing that your gang will be turning over random people's houses till they are caught.
You do not persuade medical agencies to be more effective by publicly threatening random people with a chainsaw.
You do not influence an internet company to improve its security by publicly claiming that you are enabling the hacking of random people's accounts.
The internet is not, and should not be, the private playground of scientists, technicians and the military. People who do not have technical skills have as much right to be here as those who do, and they have a right to go about their netty business without having to deal with gratuitous fake threats. There are enough real ones. And those who have the skills, and hence the power, have also a responsibility to be civilised in their behaviour towards others, as do we all....and when we don't live up to that responsibility, we can expect to be called on it. I certainly do.
And anyway, I missed you all like mad. :)
So, I'm back. Many hugs and thanks to those who sent messages of concern, and to the friend who phoned and told me what was what, and I'm sorry for behaving like a flouncing drama queen.
Waspish maunderings and bad jokes will doubtless follow in due course.
You do not compel the police to increase their efficiency by publicly announcing that your gang will be turning over random people's houses till they are caught.
You do not persuade medical agencies to be more effective by publicly threatening random people with a chainsaw.
You do not influence an internet company to improve its security by publicly claiming that you are enabling the hacking of random people's accounts.
The internet is not, and should not be, the private playground of scientists, technicians and the military. People who do not have technical skills have as much right to be here as those who do, and they have a right to go about their netty business without having to deal with gratuitous fake threats. There are enough real ones. And those who have the skills, and hence the power, have also a responsibility to be civilised in their behaviour towards others, as do we all....and when we don't live up to that responsibility, we can expect to be called on it. I certainly do.
And anyway, I missed you all like mad. :)
So, I'm back. Many hugs and thanks to those who sent messages of concern, and to the friend who phoned and told me what was what, and I'm sorry for behaving like a flouncing drama queen.
Waspish maunderings and bad jokes will doubtless follow in due course.
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Date: 2008-09-12 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-12 10:27 pm (UTC)