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Botnets that turn your gadgets into digital zombies aren’t going to attract the same attention as a chatbot or automated photo generator, nor the same level of fearmongering among AI skeptics. Every device with a processor, memory and an internet connection is a potential bot, which means they can be weaponised against us.
Ars Technica profiles Scott Shapiro, the co-author of a new book, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks.
Shapiro points out that computer science "is only a century old, and hacking, or cybersecurity, is maybe a few decades old. It s a very .