April 1, 2008

Hackers Can Cause Epilepsy

In my opinion, the report of hackers assault epilepsy patients might be the first recorded occurrence of physical, human damage due to large scale hacking. We heard about medical facilities attacks and records destruction in the past. But according to wired,the incident, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, began Saturday, March 22, when attackers used a script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs.
Wow. I wonder what's next, programing HAL 9000?
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