As the Internet is increasingly relied upon to trasmit sensitive information, the security stakes will grow. If scientists cannot be certain that their research data will not be altered, if patients do not trust the privacy of their medical records, and if safety of finacial information is in doubt, then the value of the Internet will be sharply curtailed.
Predictor: Boucher, Rick
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for New Scientist, writer Vincent Kiernan reports on a Congressional hearing in Washington, quoting Rep. Rick Boucher. Kiernan writes: ”The network’s failings have recently been exposed in glaring fashion by hackers, just as the Clinton administration is seeking to use the Internet as a ‘laboratory’ for new technologies for the National Information Infrastructure, better known as the information superhighway. ‘As the Internet is increasingly relied upon to trasmit sensitive information, the security stakes will grow,’ says Democratic Congressman Rick Boucher, who chaired the hearing. ‘If scientists cannot be certain that their research data will not be altered, if patients do not trust the privacy of their medical records, and if safety of finacial information is in doubt, then the value of the Internet will be sharply curtailed.'”
Biography:Rick Boucher was a U.S. Congressman who backed the amendment that allowed the National Science Foundation to support computer networks and opened the floodgates of digital commerce in the early 1990s. (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: New Scientist
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Wide Open to Hacker Attack
Quote Type: Partial quote
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