23-08-2017 02:34 via technocracy.news

Exposed Servers Let Hackers Take Control Of Prison Cell Doors, Pacemakers, Oil Pipelines

If millions of servers, routers, switchers and personal computers are wide-open to individual hackers, how much more to rogue governments or intelligence agencies? ⁃ TN EditorLucas Lundgren sat at his desk as he watched prison cell doors hundreds of miles away from him opening and closing.
He could see the various commands floating across his screen in unencrypted plain text. “I could even issue commands like, ‘all cell blocks open’,” he said in a phone call la
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