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Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy failures – and a call to techies to act

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Re: Pro Bono? TINSTAAFL

Actually Margaret Thatcher is a canonical example of how a fairly intelligent, open-minded scientist can go sour very quickly when exposed to the atmosphere of politics.

She abandoned the principles of science, largely because in politics and economics hardly anything can be rigorously proved. It all becomes a matter of opinion, and then of persuading as many others as possible that your opinion is fact.

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