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September 25, 2016 08:30 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QV_nqDTM7x0/the-democratization-of-censors.html
The democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as effective as a government can
On the eve of the Stuxnet attacks, half a decade ago, I found myself discussing what it all meant with William Gibson (I'd just interviewed him on stage in London), and I said, "I think the most significant thing about any of these sophisticated, government-backed attacks is that they will eventually turn into a cheap and easy weapon that technically unskilled people can deploy for petty grievances." We haven't quite got there yet with Stuxnet, but there's a whole class of "advanced persistent threat" techniques that are now in the hands of fringey criminals who deploy them at the smallest provocation. (more…)
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