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Goodman perceives abundance not just in the way Peter Diamandis describes it, but also an abundance of ways criminals can severely damage the well being of society. He explains, “There is no operating system that can’t be hacked,” and as everything moves into the digital realm, we are serving the criminals a free lunch. With a few lines of code the world is at a hacker’s fingertips. Stolen passwords and government-led operations like Stuxnet are just the tip of the iceberg. Goodman points to the emergence of new technologies like 3D Printers and synthetic biology as just another way for criminals to do harm.