The Internet: 'A Dirty Mess': "June 8, 2004
The Internet: 'A Dirty Mess'
By Roy Mark
WASHINGTON -- 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"
