BOOK REVIEW
Neuromancer, Author: William Gibson
By Robert O’Harrow Jr. – Not too long ago, “cyberspace” was pure fiction. The word appeared in “Neuromancer,” a 1984 novel that described a digital realm in which people, properly jacked in, could navigate with their minds. Author William Gibson described it as a “consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators.”
“The truth is that the cyber-universe is complex well beyond anyone’s understanding and exhibits behavior that no one predicted, and sometimes can’t even be explained well,” concluded JASON, an independent advisory group of the nation’s top scientists, in a November 2010 report to the Pentagon.
Charlie Miller attributes that fragility to companies that place sales and novel applications over computer security.
“Companies want to make money,” he said. “They don’t want to sit around and make their software perfect.” more> http://tinyurl.com/cr7297e
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