Bob
19th December 2016, 01:20
Motherboard’s former editor Ben Makuch, is going to explore the future of hacking, spying and online warfare in a new series called CYBERWAR.
The series will explore Chinese and Russian hackers, the cyber mercenaries who sell spying tools to repressive regimes, and some of the most important and shocking hacks of the past 10 years.
I've noticed on cable, VICE channel (271) at 10PM Ben Makuch's series presents an episode which explores how future wars might be fought and whether it's OK to write code that can kill.
The next episode follows, Crime and Government: Russian Hackers - and is called a DOCUMENTARY - It is from 2016, and Ben Makuch is behind the presentation.. It is further exemplified, "Russian CyberCrime IS big business"
example snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkl3SFSSTc
reference: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/americas-elite-hacking-force/5786ba34914084e32a41b549
recall Donald Trump's observation that hacking threat could come from someone sitting in their bed (with the right tools)..
"A couple of guys in a basement who know what they're doing can really do a lot of damage," he says. (Reporter Ben Makuch)
http://www.toronto24hours.ca/2016/07/11/hacking-influences-all-of-us-says-expert
Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University and the author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20601080-hacker-hoaxer-whistleblower-spy) The Many Faces of Anonymous, appears in Cyberwar as a source and worked on the series as a consultant. She’s spent a lot of time analyzing the legacy of Anonymous and says the group has set an example for other groups of hacktivists.
“Prior to Anonymous, the technique to infiltrate a system through hacking for the purposes of leaking and whistle-blowing was actually remarkably rare,” she says.
“There were a lot of data dumps, breaches, website defacement and DDOS-ing.
That had been going on for 20 years.
But it was only when Anonymous came along and started to hack law firms and security companies, by getting e-mails and throwing them up online, that other groups – some political, maybe some nation-state hackers – started to do the same.”
While Anonymous is often considered a controversial group, its members have never been overly vilified as cyber terrorists, says Coleman, who commends Mr. Robot for lionizing hacker culture.
“I think shows like Mr. Robot are incredibly important in this regard,” she emphasizes. “Because they capture the spirit and continue to disseminate it.”
But don’t expect all real-life hackers to look like the hoodie-wearing Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) in Mr. Robot, or other fictional incarnations we’ve seen in pop culture.
The series will explore Chinese and Russian hackers, the cyber mercenaries who sell spying tools to repressive regimes, and some of the most important and shocking hacks of the past 10 years.
I've noticed on cable, VICE channel (271) at 10PM Ben Makuch's series presents an episode which explores how future wars might be fought and whether it's OK to write code that can kill.
The next episode follows, Crime and Government: Russian Hackers - and is called a DOCUMENTARY - It is from 2016, and Ben Makuch is behind the presentation.. It is further exemplified, "Russian CyberCrime IS big business"
example snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkl3SFSSTc
reference: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/americas-elite-hacking-force/5786ba34914084e32a41b549
recall Donald Trump's observation that hacking threat could come from someone sitting in their bed (with the right tools)..
"A couple of guys in a basement who know what they're doing can really do a lot of damage," he says. (Reporter Ben Makuch)
http://www.toronto24hours.ca/2016/07/11/hacking-influences-all-of-us-says-expert
Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University and the author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20601080-hacker-hoaxer-whistleblower-spy) The Many Faces of Anonymous, appears in Cyberwar as a source and worked on the series as a consultant. She’s spent a lot of time analyzing the legacy of Anonymous and says the group has set an example for other groups of hacktivists.
“Prior to Anonymous, the technique to infiltrate a system through hacking for the purposes of leaking and whistle-blowing was actually remarkably rare,” she says.
“There were a lot of data dumps, breaches, website defacement and DDOS-ing.
That had been going on for 20 years.
But it was only when Anonymous came along and started to hack law firms and security companies, by getting e-mails and throwing them up online, that other groups – some political, maybe some nation-state hackers – started to do the same.”
While Anonymous is often considered a controversial group, its members have never been overly vilified as cyber terrorists, says Coleman, who commends Mr. Robot for lionizing hacker culture.
“I think shows like Mr. Robot are incredibly important in this regard,” she emphasizes. “Because they capture the spirit and continue to disseminate it.”
But don’t expect all real-life hackers to look like the hoodie-wearing Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) in Mr. Robot, or other fictional incarnations we’ve seen in pop culture.