Kane Gamble, now 18, was able to access Brennan’s emails, contacts, and his iCloud storage account after several successful attempts to manipulate information out of the call center employees. Brennan’s emails were sent to WikiLeaks and published on October 26, 2015.
“hacking” doesn’t only entail a computer, it’s also about social (uhh) networking.
The human factor, always has been the weakest link.
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Excellent point, Kenneth. In my view, a hacker is a kind of freedom fighter. As long as you have an Internet run by a global corporate oligarchy, you will always have hackers trying to break into it – especially as the notion of Internet security is a total myth.
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