Today, I read or heard four news pieces on security and the way that the internet is changing its norms, so I’ve aggregated them here.
Hackers are not just staying on the internet - instead, they’re using the internet to hack the world. That’s what the next piece is about. The third is an NYTimes article on the recently exposed insecurity of the internet, and the final one is an NPR students who hacked the subway charge card system in Boston. But this may not be as bad as it seems - first of all, hacker code implicitly assigns hackers to tell providers when their services have been found to be hackable so they can fix the holes, meaning that hackers can make the world safer. Secondly, hackers see hacking as more of a mental challenge, or a game - which can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
The picture above is from last weekend’s DefCon. DefCon is the world’s largest security conference, which means it’s a lovefest for hackers. There are all sorts of cool competitions, like a lockpicking one, or the one that this picture was from - the Mystery Challenge. Here’s a slideshow from Wired.com.
And here’s a bonus article from the AP, about scientists getting closer to figuring out how to create an invisibility cloak.
