Surprised? After seeing their "4chan/hacker" news with scenes of exploding vans (with a "demonstration only" label underneath), they're not going to shock me... Does that really work on an average person?
>Title: 10 Everyday Items Hackers Are Targeting Right Now
>9. The Human Body... computers can help the disabled walk or play videogames. And it could be just a matter of time before humans are "augmented" this way.
[EDIT: I originally defended the article on the grounds that the statements you pointed out were not necessarily contradictory. I then finished reading the article and decided it was not worth defending. What garbage...]
I like the URL: /everyday-items-hackers-targeting-right/
Targeting the Right? I'm filled with so much outrage and disgust I'm not even going to read the article! Clearly the liberals are at it again with their freethinking and college educations.
I'm bad at detecting sarcasm. You realize the title truncated from ...-targeting-right-now to targeting-right, right? A lot of sites use the first few words or characters of their article titles to make the URL.
Always interesting to see who ends up getting cited in articles like this:
"David Perry, a virus expert at Trend Micro"
"Robert Siciliano, the CEO at IDTheftSecurity.com"
"Winn Schwartau from The Security Awareness Company"
... and that's it.
Any article about hacking that ends with "... and even the HUMAN MIND" does a fair enough job mocking itself, but I have to point out that the one thing the article goes out of its way to downplay:
For now, most of us are safe; the smart grid is more of an idea than a reality, although there are several test deployments across the country. Once the smart grid becomes common, Schwartau said filtering, a method of making sure the power is actually reaching the intended recipients, could help ensure the grid is not hackable. We'll see.
... is the least worthy of downplaying on the list.
The security industry appears to be a tightly focused oligarchy of bullshit in which the AV firms and other commercially beholden interests fart out controlled bursts of FUD, in collusion with irresponsible media, in order to convince their not-very-technologically-savvy consumers to bite on solutions that don't work, for problems that don't matter, while all the while little Bobby Tables goes about his merry business.
Can we please please pretty please rename this site "Cell Phone Stealer News", just to make it clear we're a group of thugs and petty criminals with only occasional tidbits of technical knowledge?
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>Title: 10 Everyday Items Hackers Are Targeting Right Now
>9. The Human Body... computers can help the disabled walk or play videogames. And it could be just a matter of time before humans are "augmented" this way.
"David Perry, a virus expert at Trend Micro"
"Robert Siciliano, the CEO at IDTheftSecurity.com"
"Winn Schwartau from The Security Awareness Company"
... and that's it.
Any article about hacking that ends with "... and even the HUMAN MIND" does a fair enough job mocking itself, but I have to point out that the one thing the article goes out of its way to downplay:
For now, most of us are safe; the smart grid is more of an idea than a reality, although there are several test deployments across the country. Once the smart grid becomes common, Schwartau said filtering, a method of making sure the power is actually reaching the intended recipients, could help ensure the grid is not hackable. We'll see.
... is the least worthy of downplaying on the list.