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    Turns out, pacemaker security is terrifying

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    Violet Blue
    Violet Blue
    04.21.2017

    The hacker who uses her wizard powers to get rich by manipulating stocks is a tired Hollywood trope. But that doesn't mean some hackers don't dream about making the fantasy come true, or that the ridiculous vulnerabilities necessary to facilitate such a thing don't exist. Some hackers do indeed have that dream. And reductive Hollywood-style vulns in critical financial (and other) systems are as real as they are plentiful in our world of crap security.