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Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year

Posted by Soulskill on from the need-a-sherlock-to-go-with-watson dept.

An anonymous reader sends this story from The Stack: The world's first "online murder" over an internet-connected device could happen by the end of this year, Europol has warned. Research carried out by the European Union's law enforcement agency has found that governments are not equipped to fight the growing threat of "online murder," as cyber criminals start to exploit internet technologies to target victims physically. The study, which was published last week, analyzed the possible physical dangers linked to cyber criminality and found that a rise in "injury and possible deaths" could be expected as computer hackers launch attacks on critical connected equipment. The assessment particularly referred to a report by IID, a U.S. security firm, which forecast that the world's first murder via a "hacked internet-connected device" would happen by the end of 2014.

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  1. More fear mongering. by seoras · · Score: 3, Interesting

    F.U.D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

    Anyone else getting a bit fed up with all this fear BS?
    I'm I alone in feeling like our governments are treating us like a herd of sheep using fear to herd us and control us?

    Only earlier today we had a post about giving up freedoms so we can be better protected.
    http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/07/0235241/brits-must-trade-digital-freedoms-for-safety-says-crime-agency-boss

    Now another article where we are again being told that a free internet is a physical threat to us and we can be murdered online. ...."found that governments are not equipped to fight the growing threat of "online murder", ..".
    The solution - give up our freedom online.

    How long until a post like this is blacked out as "unsafe".
    Who is it really unsafe for?

  2. Mod parent up by Prune · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah, a deliciously nerdy reference to the famous IRC quote, one of the top-rated ones on the quote database:

    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <Zybl0re>get up
    <Zybl0re>get on up
    <phxl|paper>and DANCE
    * nmp3bot dances :D-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D|-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D/-<
    <[SA]HatfulOfHollow>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

    --
    "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."