Security

If You’re Not Paying, You’re The Product. I hate the above phrase. My problem with it isn’t in its intent, because I agree with the sentiment. We as consumers need to look at the products we use an determine whether there might be some hidden costs to the convenience that companies provide us. So what’s my issue? EVEN IF YOU PAY FOR A SERVICE, YOU ARE STILL A PRODUCT. I’ve been thinking of a video that I saw about a year ago. It’s from consumer-friendly lobbyist and personal hero of mine, Louis Rossmann. ...

Introduction When you first become a hacker, you develop something of a “hacker vision” that follows you when you go about. You tend to notice things like smart meters that control the city’s electricity supply, or kiosks that are running intel compute sticks, or whatever. When you understand how the tech works, you can’t help but ask yourself if you could exploit that. And hospitals will drive you crazy. Hospitals are highly digitized palaces with open ethernet jacks, presumed places of privacy, and computers running Windows 7 because their scanners aren’t compatible with anything else. I wouldn’t be surprised if every hospital is currently hacked. ...