On 18 December 2014 at 09:11, Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org wrote:
↪ 2014-12-18 Thu 00:19, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
The future is, quite literally, your fridge being pwn3d by Russian hacker gangs to send spam. This is a thing that is literally going to happen.
You mean, like this? http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-use-a-refridgerator-to-attack-busines... Just saying, this is not the future, this is now.
Oh wow, I didn't know about that one. Thank you.
Also, I think that the likeliness that the fridge is going to be misused by a hacker is not high. (Or did you mean something else, remember that a hacker is not synonymous with criminal, otherwise FSFE would be a criminal organisation defending our rights to hack!)
I think arguing the definition of "hack" is a ship that sailed decades ago; attempts to do so are one group self-labeling as "hackers" claiming that another group self-labelilng as "hackers" shouldn't use the label, but approximately nobody else cares and this really doesn't match observable usage of the word.
- d.