I see a lot of wrong things on Twitter but I think this is the furthest from the truth of anything I've seen today.https://twitter.com/Steve_Lockstep/status/989950831951785984 …
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Or found a security hole, or read a security advisory, or read any of the privacy literature, or heard of a pirate cable TV descrambler, or learned Nyquist’s theorem...
Indeed. The last sentence is almost exactly wrong: data often does seem like some fluid that seeps around cyberspace of its own accord.
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They're sorta wrong for an interesting reason. I guess it's because interfaces often hide side effects, and this is both extraordinarily powerful - it helps make programs scale, and means I can use libs written by others - and has lots of unintended consequences.
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Sure, the reasons they're wrong include many interesting and profound areas of both computer science and practical day-to-day uses of computers.
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