He writes actual letters, physical objects that can be stolen by someone who does not know how to hack a computer, a novel concept in 2013.
After Raphie blew away the crowd and judges (one of them offered him an internship at Facebook, another at Google), I had the opportunity to connect with him and chat about his project, how he learned to hack at the tender age of 15, and which companies excite him right now.
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While there are a number of security implications, it is interesting to see how the attackers were able to hack the system and retrieve the data.
But to be honest I think the part that worries me the most is, well, how hard is it to hack into this?
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In a press release on the Playstation Network blog, spokesperson Patrick Seybold added a lengthy explanation of how the company plans to respond to the hack, including adding new layers of security, changing how it encrypts customer data, and appointing a chief information security officer.
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In India, however, the government seems to be years behind the U.S. in its attitude towards researchers that hack technology only to show how it can be fixed.
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Reflect also on how your close colleagues and extended network reacted to the hack.
If some adolescent in Malaysia wants to hack in to my system to find out how much money we spent on office supplies last year, more power to him.
People who like to hack, for fun or for worse reasons, want to see how robust a system is.
CNET, a tech site that partners with CNN, says the hack highlights how interconnected information is online -- and how vulnerable that setup is to attack.
Hotz likes to hack according to the early definition of the word: getting inside a machine to see how it works, and changing it.
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