22nd August 2015, 9:19 AM
So you may have heard about this hack. It's got a lot more publicity than hacks over credit card data, and that fact alone really depresses me.
Every article online has a bunch of comments that read like this.
"This hack is going to hurt a lot of families." Right, the truth will hurt people. That's entirely the hacker's fault, isn't it? These are the sorts of people who get mad when someone reveals the truth because it will "ruin them". Sorry to quote Obi-wan here but, "You did that yourself!".
Every article online has a bunch of comments that read like this.
"This hack is going to hurt a lot of families." Right, the truth will hurt people. That's entirely the hacker's fault, isn't it? These are the sorts of people who get mad when someone reveals the truth because it will "ruin them". Sorry to quote Obi-wan here but, "You did that yourself!".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)