Reply #8: Techies Will Be Demonized, Of Course [View All]

[LoneStarLiberal]

America irrespective of party affiliation has a bass-akwards fixation with problems, particularly problems and controversies in technology where expertise on a level that allows you to understand the basics of what is happening is thin.

I'll tell you exactly what I think would happen: Congress would crap a brick, the media would be outraged, the person or persons would immediately be branded terrorists, and America's third most cherished pasttime (anti-intellectualism) will guarantee that the messenger gets drilled while the message is lost.

Techies will be demonized, anyone who can find much less use a command prompt will automatically be under suspicion of high crimes, and while everyone gets good a lathered up for a geek lynching, the REAL problem of cheap donutware (like donuts, it comes with holes in it right out of the box!) will be quietly smoothed over by the responsible parties.

After all, what's going to get more Nielsen points: 23 year old "security expert" charged with Federal election fraud for sniffing Diebold traffic at New York election site or Security community, election ware manufacturers address SSL vulnerability with cooperative patching effort, open platform assurance testing?