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What technologists do is create technologies. What policymakers do is try to …

What technologists do is create technologies. What policymakers do is try to control technologies that do ill and what criminals do is use the technology for ill purposes. So go after the criminals, not the technologists.Computer technologists should not be held to a higher standard than anyone else. These questions were never asked when automobiles, paper clips, candlesand computers themselves were invented. Fortunately not, because if society were bound to invent technologies which could only be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting in caves sucking our feet. Gene Kan
creator of Gnutella in http://salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/07/yoink_napster/index.html