I mean, you got a guy going on Geraldo and such fear mongering and accusing the government of doing nothing while the most senior level of the US government as public as possible describes modern sounding risk management ideals... And people forget that security through obscurity was a deeply prized thing, and all of this was before firewalls.

If you were to tell Mr. Stoll and his audience that that in the future one of the most popular information places would be called Hacker News they would get the opinion very quickly that the good guys apparently lost in the future. I guess I can't really describe it, but this mindset would've been very bad had it survived, but thankfully it hasn't, and couldn't.

This would've been impossible probably, but ideally Mr. Stoll should've worked to explain in detail the vulnerabilities and mitigations and tried to explain those things as making crime inevitable. That's what we do today, but for a long time people thought that was just giving bad people ammunition instead of how we see it today as part of a whole arsenal of perspectives and strategies.

In the late 90s during several Q&As Mr. Stoll came around to agree with many of our modern concepts of security, once he understood more of the game mechanics and some other understandable confusion stuff... He wasn't as online perhaps as many people are today, and to my understanding never formally worked in security nor wanted to.