Quote - Peter Plantec, THE Peter Plantec, is a world renouned digital artist and software designer.  He authored several respected books, including Truspace 2 Bible, Virtual Humans, and is a contributing columnist at VFXWorld in Hollywood.  He's an authority on virtual human design and artificial intelligence.

I don't know if that post was really by him or not, but I'd be very surprised if he actually "stole" any content.  I don't see why he'd have to, other than for research on a book or perhaps anti-malware software design.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/bios/frame.html?main=/bios/bio0234.html?

Yes it was him and yes he actually did all the things he said he did and he did it as the basis for his article. Nothing more. Nothing less. Some people would rather we all remained ignorant and unsafe than to have people out there testing the limits of saftey for our sakes.