{"id":4829,"date":"2011-08-08T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:47:24","slug":"repostdef-con-the-event-that-scares-hackers-cnn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/08\/repostdef-con-the-event-that-scares-hackers-cnn-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::DEF CON: The event that scares hackers &#8211; CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He said mischievous hackers can install their own cell phone towers to intercept your calls before passing them on to the real mobile carrier. These &#8220;man-in-the-middle attacks,&#8221; he said, let hackers eavesdrop, but they can also alter the conversation you&#8217;re having, without your knowledge.<br \/>\n&#8220;You send a text saying &#8216;I love you,&#8217; and he (the hacker) says, &#8216;I want to break up with you.'&#8221; Or worse than that, Markus said, you could be doing business &#8212; maybe the hacker would change &#8220;sell it all&#8221; to &#8220;buy it all,&#8221; with potentially huge ramifications.<br \/>\nThe hackers who attend DEF CON &#8212; now in their thirties instead of their teens as they were at the start of the hacker movement &#8212; hope, in a strange way, that by teaching people about hacking they will make the tech world safer.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/TECH\/web\/08\/05\/def.con.hackers\/index.html\">DEF CON: The event that scares hackers &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said mischievous hackers can install their own cell phone towers to intercept your calls before passing them on to the real mobile carrier. These &#8220;man-in-the-middle attacks,&#8221; he said, let hackers eavesdrop, but they can also alter the conversation you&#8217;re having, without your knowledge. &#8220;You send a text saying &#8216;I love you,&#8217; and he (the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/08\/repostdef-con-the-event-that-scares-hackers-cnn-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::DEF CON: The event that scares hackers &#8211; CNN.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}