Recently an anonymous hacker wrote a script that took over embedded Linux devices. These owned computers scanned the whole rest of the internet and created a survey that told us more than we’d ever known about the shape of the internet. The little hacked boxes reported their data back (a full 10 TBs) and quietly deactivated the hack. It was a sweet and useful example of someone who hacked the planet to shit. If that malware had actually been malicious, we would have been so fucked.

Everything Is Broken — Quinn Norton on Medium

Unf I want every example ever of blisteringly intelligent knowledgable people swearing casually about their area of expertise. Why is it so magical?

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