Catherine Offord, The Scientist; Hackers Are Breaking into Medical Databases to Protect Patient Data
"The first few times Ben Sadeghipour
hacked into a computer, it was to access the video games on his older
brother’s desktop. “He would usually have a password on his computer,
and I would try and guess his password,” Sadeghipour tells The Scientist.
Sometimes he’d guess right. Other times, he wouldn’t. “So I got into
learning about how to get into computers that were password protected,”
he says. “At the time, I had no clue that what I was doing was
considered hacking.”
The skills he picked up back then would
become unexpectedly useful later in life. Sadeghipour now breaks into
other people’s computer systems as a profession. He is one of thousands
of so-called ethical hackers working for HackerOne,
a company that provides services to institutions and businesses looking
to test the security of their systems and identify vulnerabilities
before criminals do."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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