Hackers take aim at prison locks and other real-world targets
Las Vegas (CNN) -- If you've seen the 1983 large screen "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to throw up the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a nice-looking good idea what hackers and security researchers are wonderful-concerned about these days -- in real life.
Here at the Hateful Hat hacker conference at Caesars Palace, computer assurance experts have shown ways they can use virtual tools to tap into and tinker with all kinds of stuff in the real world, which is the core of what made "WarGames" so scary.
No longer restricted to the digital domain, hackers -- many of them working for well-proportioned -- are now targeting prison systems, the power grid and automobiles. They'll end anything with a mini-computer inside of it. These days, that's pretty much everything.
Researcher Don Bailey pungent out that there's even a pill bottle with a cellular connection, so that it can put in mind of its owner when to take his or her medicine.
On one near are that small number of people in China and India who have learnt how to vocation this system to their huge advantage. On the other are all those and more »