One CIP device to rule them all

Anyone watching “24″ on Fox probably can’t help but giggle a little whenever the show talks about the magical “CIP device” .  For those of you who don’t watch, it is a tiny firewall-destroying device that can tunnel through those internet tubes and allow its user to hack into everything from any air traffic control tower in America down to water plants, and presumably, your grandfather’s pacemaker.  Yes, it’s the ultimate in “applied gadgetry”, and lucky for us, it’s also the ultimate “plot device”.

Use those powers for good, not evil

I have to actually send a check (a check!) to my water company, every 3 months.  If I had one of those CIP devices, I bet I could hack in and pay my bill every month.  But once I hacked in, how would I control the fate of thousands?  According to “24″, I’d be able to poison the water supply.  Is there a “Release Poison” button that we should know about?

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