No!
Say it ain't so!
Anything digital can be digitally hacked?
Who knew?
Hint: anyone with any computer knowledge knew, or at the very least had no excuse for not knowing.
These folks come up with the goofiest schemes, and then sell unsuspecting - and utterly in the dark, unknowing - decision makers on how safe and secure their particular "solution" is, and the decision makers eat that crap up.
Recent examples of just such pie-in-the-sky schemes:
1) that goofy chip they put in credit/debit cards to "enhance security". They don't. At all. They're just a useless expense that is designed to make a consumer feel more secure when he or she isn't... the chips never come into play at all in online transactions, and as for POS terminal transactions, I can drop my card on the way out of a store, and the next person going in can find it, take it inside, and clean all the money off of it - the chip is right there with them the whole time! How in the hell does that make ANYTHING more secure? Those chips are designed for one thing only - to make money for the people who make and sell the chips to companies that apparently don't know any better than to buy them.
Those chips work on the same principles that those "security cards" that you used to have to put in a satellite receiver to "decode" the signals worked on. The chips even look the same. Back in the day, I knew a guy who made a decent living programming and reprogramming those satellite "security" cards. Folks would buy the lowest tier programming, then take their cards to Spany who would reprogram them, and presto! They could watch anything the wanted to.
So then the satellite companies started sending "fry" signals to fry hacked cards. No problem - Spanky would just reprogram them for 20 bucks, and the viewer was back in business.
He even had an old computer at his shop that he paid about 30 bucks for. It didn't even have a hard drive... but it ran a program that would "unlock" all the satellite channels on the fly. If they sent a "fry" signal to it, all he had to do was re-boot, and he was back in business.
"Security" chips my ass! Spanky did about 4 years in the Federal pokey over his hacking activities, but when he got out, he had a nice nest egg waiting for him all the same from those activities.
2) "unhackable" digital ID's that apparently (see OP) turned out to be extremely hackable.
3) "unhackable" crypto "currency", that also turns out to be very hackable, not to mention vanishes into nothingness if you get a transaction just a little bit wrong. See, if I have cash in my pocket, and it "vanishes" between my hand and the cashier's hand, I know who I'm gonna punch in the face. Not so easy when you're dealing with fake "cryptocurrencies". They just vanish, and are never seen again. Anywhere. it's as if they never existed... which, really, they didn't.
There is nothing digital that is un-hackable. The best you can hope to do is make it more costly to hack, but a determined hacker will be able to get around it, no matter what you do.
Welcome to the Digital Age.
.
Say it ain't so!
Anything digital can be digitally hacked?
Who knew?
Hint: anyone with any computer knowledge knew, or at the very least had no excuse for not knowing.
These folks come up with the goofiest schemes, and then sell unsuspecting - and utterly in the dark, unknowing - decision makers on how safe and secure their particular "solution" is, and the decision makers eat that crap up.
Recent examples of just such pie-in-the-sky schemes:
1) that goofy chip they put in credit/debit cards to "enhance security". They don't. At all. They're just a useless expense that is designed to make a consumer feel more secure when he or she isn't... the chips never come into play at all in online transactions, and as for POS terminal transactions, I can drop my card on the way out of a store, and the next person going in can find it, take it inside, and clean all the money off of it - the chip is right there with them the whole time! How in the hell does that make ANYTHING more secure? Those chips are designed for one thing only - to make money for the people who make and sell the chips to companies that apparently don't know any better than to buy them.
Those chips work on the same principles that those "security cards" that you used to have to put in a satellite receiver to "decode" the signals worked on. The chips even look the same. Back in the day, I knew a guy who made a decent living programming and reprogramming those satellite "security" cards. Folks would buy the lowest tier programming, then take their cards to Spany who would reprogram them, and presto! They could watch anything the wanted to.
So then the satellite companies started sending "fry" signals to fry hacked cards. No problem - Spanky would just reprogram them for 20 bucks, and the viewer was back in business.
He even had an old computer at his shop that he paid about 30 bucks for. It didn't even have a hard drive... but it ran a program that would "unlock" all the satellite channels on the fly. If they sent a "fry" signal to it, all he had to do was re-boot, and he was back in business.
"Security" chips my ass! Spanky did about 4 years in the Federal pokey over his hacking activities, but when he got out, he had a nice nest egg waiting for him all the same from those activities.
2) "unhackable" digital ID's that apparently (see OP) turned out to be extremely hackable.
3) "unhackable" crypto "currency", that also turns out to be very hackable, not to mention vanishes into nothingness if you get a transaction just a little bit wrong. See, if I have cash in my pocket, and it "vanishes" between my hand and the cashier's hand, I know who I'm gonna punch in the face. Not so easy when you're dealing with fake "cryptocurrencies". They just vanish, and are never seen again. Anywhere. it's as if they never existed... which, really, they didn't.
There is nothing digital that is un-hackable. The best you can hope to do is make it more costly to hack, but a determined hacker will be able to get around it, no matter what you do.
Welcome to the Digital Age.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake