Elias Canetti Quotes
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Canetti, Elias. The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985. Translated by Joel Agee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
He was describing hackers. The term originally was used in the comptuer world to refer to a perso who had the tallent and the knowhow to enter anbd utilize computers when the did not have the specific permissions to do so. Many computer security experts refer to themjselves as hackes because they show computer managers where their vulnerabilities are. Others work for law enforcement, and some work for expionage agencies, Others are theives who use theior abilties to steal or commit fraud. Still other hackers see hacking as a sport and break into computers for the challange.
See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
Elias Canetti was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna.
