Let me set your mind to rest about security on the Internet: There IS NO SECURITY ON THE INTERNET, and I don’t think there can be.
Predictor: Rickard, Jack
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Cybertalk, Timothy Barmann interviews Boardwatch editor Jack Rickard. Barmann writes: ”It’s so easy to do that you don’t have to be a programmer, a genius or ‘even barely awake’ to be someone you’re not on the Internet, writes Jack Rickard, the author. ‘You could alter national politics with a few choice messages from the right people to the right people,’ Rickard writes. ‘Or drive Tipper (Gore) into a frenzy.’ Rickard, who is editor of Boardwatch, writes that he’s not advocating fraud; he’s simply pointing out that the Internet is – by design – an open, public network that is easily misused. ‘Let me set your mind to rest about security on the Internet,’ he writes. ‘There IS NO SECURITY ON THE INTERNET, and I don’t think there can be.'”
Biography:Jack Rickard, the editor/publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, the magazine of the 1990s home-grown BBS industry, was also co-founder of the Online Networking Exposition and BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON). (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: May 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Cybertalk
Title, headline, chapter name: Was That Really the Gov Online?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.cybertalk.com/052895a.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Schmidt, Nicholas