The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.
The community - more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.
