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Title: Hackers are after your blender!
Post by: iago on June 12, 2010, 01:53:31 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/11/everyday-items-hackers-targeting-right/?test=faces

I think my friend Elliott summed it up best, "Its official, the media doesn't have a clue what is going on."

They seem to be confusing "hackers CAN target device X" with "oh no!!! Everybody's going after X!!!"

Title: Re: Hackers are after your blender!
Post by: Joe on June 12, 2010, 04:20:07 PM

Any halfway decent robber would wait until you're gone, not hack your blender. :-\

Title: Re: Hackers are after your blender!
Post by: Lance on June 25, 2010, 08:48:55 PM

Is that a packet logger in the background?

Title: Re: Hackers are after your blender!
Post by: iago on June 26, 2010, 12:21:12 PM

If you mean foreground, then yeah, that appears to be tcpdump. :)

I'm surprised they didn't use traceroute like everybody else.

Clan x86

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