Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

It misleads the public, it misleads Congress, and it's part of their annual ritual of underestimating the need and overestimating the expenses.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?

We are back to being the old Real Madrid. If we keep playing like this then I'm sure we'll win something.

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.