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- Smokes, on 05/27/2009, -1/+55You're kidding me with this crap, aren't you?
- PlusTheBear, on 05/27/2009, -1/+50Fear mongering says what
- wontstoptalking, on 05/27/2009, -0/+48Email arriving from mom in 5...4...3...2....
"subject: "re:re:re:re: LOOK AT THIS HACKERS HACKING BUILDING!!!" - senseilmno, on 05/27/2009, -2/+49people who think this is real make baby jesus cry
- mwalker05, on 05/27/2009, -1/+41the fact that someone working in a computer security company can't immediately tell this is completely fake is frightening.
im still waiting for the video of some crazy hackers hacking into a car's steering wheel and gas pedal through the bluetooths and using it to steal the car and run over pedestrians. - Hoovooloo, on 05/28/2009, -2/+21Seriously. Even if someone is almost completely clueless about computers and IT, as I am, anyone who has ever used a fluorescent light bulb as they clearly showed in the video should know you can't flash them on and off at that rate. ***** McAfee.
- afritzsche, on 05/28/2009, -0/+16"INITIALIZING! 5... 4... 3..."
Please. - t0ny, on 05/28/2009, -0/+15You mean FW:fw:Fw:fw:fw:FW:... ?
- tgrokz, on 05/28/2009, -0/+15woah woah woah
people think this is real? - Skuzzlbut, on 05/27/2009, -0/+14This will be on "Good Morning America" in about a week, and it will still be ***** then too.
- nyx210, on 05/28/2009, -0/+14Who the hell cheers and shouts during a space invaders game?
- cjwhitaker, on 05/27/2009, -1/+15The files are innnnnn the computer...
- GoKings, on 05/28/2009, -1/+13Clearly a viral video marketing ad... Not a very good one either...
- Dougman82, on 05/28/2009, -0/+10When played on a skyscraper? Me.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -0/+9How does a fake video prove anything?
- thethunderbird, on 05/28/2009, -0/+9No it's totally real. And after they popped corn with their cells!
- judicar, on 05/28/2009, -0/+9Yeah, that, the high production values and the fact that florescent lights don't have such a high response.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -0/+8Generally something like "Could your kids be in grave danger ? Find out at 11."
- shrudheuie, on 05/28/2009, -1/+8Yep.... If you run proprietary software in your infrastructure, amateur film makers will add video game effects to a video of your building and release it to the internet. This is no joke, it could happen to you.
That has got to be the weakest argument for open source ever to be spewed forth onto the internet. - shrudheuie, on 05/28/2009, -1/+8OMG!! I saw this video once where hackers hacked a bunch of oil tankers but the good hackers came and distracted the other hackers with a cookie monster virus and the oil tankers were saved. This is clearly evidence that our oil tankers are at risk from hackers. I just hope McAfee can pull together a working cookie monster before disaster strikes.
- koan, on 05/28/2009, -0/+6Of course they can tell it is fake, but McAfee is in the business of selling security solutions and like any other business needs to expand into new markets to grow.
- Advenger, on 05/28/2009, -1/+6Morbo: Florescent lights do not work that way!
wow McAfee really?
1. you would need a lot more equipment to pull something like that off
2. you DON'T tighten a screw to a powered device (looked link a psu so especially NO)
3. Security!
4. Blank page + waveform and no text.
5. the area with the save comment button is bouncing up and down like crazy every character I type. Help!
6. this is a semi-well produced video, no home camera is ever this good.
7. no work checking? how do you know it would work without testing it first? They just plugged it in and left!
I know(hope?) digg is smart enough to have figured it out ( and they said so in the article) that this is fake. I use McAfee as my anti-virus, and in the 5 years I've been with them I have had NO infections, no matter how many porn sites I visit (it may also be firefox). This kind of paranoia is what makes it good, but sometimes it really is too much. When I click "Trust this file", I mean TRUST THIS FILE. It's like it ignores me and deletes it anyway (and she was so HOT!). Also, the updates happen frequently, so I know its up to date.However, it shouldn't take an entire core in the middle of TF2 to do so! (That's right, you ARE on fire!). - KMFDM781, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5People. Are. Dumb.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5No, that's not what this is at all. Did you even read the article?
- cuervoman914, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5fear mongering, at its finest. nothing says freedom like taking all of them away. this incessant fear mongering has been insulting the american intellect since 9/11, at first because of true fear, but now because of unsormountable laziness. we have a voice, its the govt, but when they talk balk instead of listening, you know the system is broken. i cant wait till i get my american education and apply it somewhere else.
- gamerzworld, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5Fear. Only 5 Cents.
- shotgunefx, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5You would have thought they would have at least added some flicker to the fluorescent lights
- decoy9697, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5I like the code securing my most precious information to be AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.
- Pinkertinkle, on 05/28/2009, -2/+7viral videos are worse than HIV
- dodger2020, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4at 16-17 seconds, the motherboard he's using would probably work better if it had some memory.
- unabsolute, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4Propaganda
- darthvalium, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4Impending apocalypse indeed!
"Increase speed! Drop down! and reverse direction!" - burningrobot, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4Call me when they can play CoD on a skyscraper.
- Rivetgeek, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4holy crap. anyone that thinks this was real needs a kick in the teeth. First off wtf is with the blinky little thing he attaches to the screen? looks like a spyder color tuner with an led stuck to it to me. Secondly, no hacker would ever program "initializing..." type countdowns, hell they probably wouldnt even have a graphic. Thirdly, and most importantly, they ran for ten seconds and covered what looks like a half mile?
- ophello, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3Most buildings use fluorescent lights. They don't turn off and on very quickly. Response time would be *****.
- darkened, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3As a C#/ASP.NET developer, I'm quite glad the military has many applications developed in aforementioned languages.
- shutaro, on 05/27/2009, -1/+4DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
- Dougman82, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3For the sake of my happiness, I wish this video were real.
- Vexelius, on 05/27/2009, -1/+4Come on, this was a ripoff from the "Hackers" movie ending...
- WiretapStudios, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3Viral videos are easy to spot...it's not in the content, it is usually in the editing. Also there is usually at least one fake happy part where one or a group of people celebrate somehow at the end.
- banderwocky, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3"Fake or not, the video confirms that hackers and cybercriminals have got their eyes on SCADA networks"
WTF!?!?! Fake or not?!?! Fake or not?? What kinda stupid is this idiot from?? Basing reality off a viral video??? - GawtMilk, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3Tetris games at Brown were for real. This is just bad writing and convincing After Effects work.
- Numbski, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2Basic fact - most buildings do not have centralized power wiring that have all light switching come down to a single wiring closet. To make this happen IRL, you would need to set computer gear at every breaker panel, and then that presumes that every outward facing light is on a different circuit (likely NOT the case).
As cool of a hack as that would be/is (this has been done before IRL with permission), what we see in that video simply is NOT. - eqrunner, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2I speak from my 8 years of experience as an electrical contractor. Never in my life have I ever 'networked' a whole building's lighting system together. We wire up areas in to sections on a floor back to a breaker panel for that assigned floor. We only use relays when there is a large section of circuits that we want to power on in one large cluster, and all window offices and other '4 wall offices and meeting rooms' have their own lighting switch that is in no way connected to a 'central command' center on a single floor. This video is false. Yes there are others out there, but they have either added their own lights per window per floor and networked them together, or communicated with humans to control the lights on each given floor. But I can ensure you that this is fake.
- ophello, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2Perhaps you will feel less smart when you realize this is fake.
- m4csrgh3yk3v, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2lrn2blinkenlights
- Navicerts, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2It's his job to fear monger, he sells security...
- GawtMilk, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2My IQ is 632. You are wrong. Trust me.
- jloutey, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1If the light switch isn't in the "on" position from the beginning, then the light would not turn on. Basically there should dead pixels.
Even if all the lights we're incandescent, this would be impossible. - sethrubenstein, on 05/28/2009, -0/+11. It looks fake. 2 Stop fearmongering, lets say its proof of an "impending cyber apocalypse" well if thats what hackers have to do to hack the power grid and such forget about, that wasnt remote they had to install hardware at the physical location. Utter BS, but pretty cool if it was real.
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