It's also outright stupid. For example, from the section about hacking:
> "Timid people could become criminals."
This fully misunderstands hacking, criminality, and human nature, in that criminals go where the money is, you don't need to be a Big Burly Wrestler to point a gun at someone and get all of their money at the nearest ATM, and you don't need to be Snerd The Nerd to Know Computers. It's a mix of idiocy straight out of the stupidest 1980s comedy films.
Also:
> "Remote computing freed criminals from the historic requirement of proximity to their crimes."
This is so blatantly stupid it barely bears refutation. What does this idiot think mail enables? We have Spanish Prisoner scams going back centuries, and that's the same scam as the one the 419 mugus are running.
Plus:
> Anonymity and freedom from personal victim confrontation increased the emotional ease of crime, i.e., the victim was only an inanimate computer, not a real person or enterprise.
Yeah, criminals will defraud you (or, you know, beat the shit out of you and threaten to kill you if you don't empty your bank accounts) just as easily if they can see your great, big round face. It doesn't matter. They're criminals.
Finally, this:
> Your software and systems should be secure by design and should have been designed with flaw-handling in mind.
"Just do it completely right the first time, idiot!" fails to be an actionable plan.
> "Timid people could become criminals."
This fully misunderstands hacking, criminality, and human nature, in that criminals go where the money is, you don't need to be a Big Burly Wrestler to point a gun at someone and get all of their money at the nearest ATM, and you don't need to be Snerd The Nerd to Know Computers. It's a mix of idiocy straight out of the stupidest 1980s comedy films.
Also:
> "Remote computing freed criminals from the historic requirement of proximity to their crimes."
This is so blatantly stupid it barely bears refutation. What does this idiot think mail enables? We have Spanish Prisoner scams going back centuries, and that's the same scam as the one the 419 mugus are running.
Plus:
> Anonymity and freedom from personal victim confrontation increased the emotional ease of crime, i.e., the victim was only an inanimate computer, not a real person or enterprise.
Yeah, criminals will defraud you (or, you know, beat the shit out of you and threaten to kill you if you don't empty your bank accounts) just as easily if they can see your great, big round face. It doesn't matter. They're criminals.
Finally, this:
> Your software and systems should be secure by design and should have been designed with flaw-handling in mind.
"Just do it completely right the first time, idiot!" fails to be an actionable plan.