Steve Blank on What Hackers Are Teaching Us Right Now
In the wake of numerous high-profile attacks by the notorious hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous, Britain's top policeman yesterday called the “challenges created by cybercrime extraordinarily significant and deeply worrying." Steve Blank thinks that’s putting it mildly. “LulzSec and Anonymous are little more than disorganized gangs that can shoot straight, but they’ve exposed how weak our systems are,” says Blank, a renowned entrepreneur who now lectures on entrepreneurship at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Columbia University. “Imagine that instead of using a ballistic missile or expensive planes, you have 1,000 people who are financed by a nation and whose only job, 24/7, is to take out another country’s infrastructure” through hacking.
23 June 2011•3 mins read
