Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
These days it’s hard to read an online news source, pick up a newspaper, or watch TV without seeing reports of new threats: cybercrimes, data breaches, industrial espionage, and potential destruction of national infrastructure. These reports inevitably leave the impression that we are drowning in an inexorable tide of new and terrifying threats.
One has to question how much of this is rhetoric , and how much is reality. There are political and profit-driven motives ...
