The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.