« These days, the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre is mostly cited as an example of the “Cobra Effect,” an economic theory about how incentives, in a complex system, can lead to perverse, unintended consequences »
« […] What the hack did, however, was to reframe the discussion on wireless security. Rather than accept Marconi’s assertion that these signals were secure and could not be interfered with, researchers afterward started looking into ways that these could be monitored, jammed and otherwise manipulated »
The ancestors of the Internet were kind enough to give us a communication standard which is free, transparent, and standardized. It would be a shame to see the tech communication landscape move further and further into the world of locked gardens and proprietary schemas.