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"You will be able to, you young people, travel farther and faster through outer space and cyberspace even than people can today…

"You will be able to, you young people, travel farther and faster through outer space and cyberspace even than people can today" - US President Bill Clinton speaking in Belfast on Wednesday.

"It may be improbable that cyberspace can be seriously disrupted, it may be improbable that a war in cyberspace can occur, but it could happen" - Richard Clarke of the US National Security Council speaking at the SafeNet 2000 summit.

News monitor column by Patrick Logue. Computimes edited by Conor Pope

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