> > "hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world"
> Source? Particularly with respect to "weaponized". The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.
Arguably it has been "weaponized" by the NSA and their allies. See, stuxnet and related threats. There is good reason to believe other nation state actors also have "weaponized" threats. For instance the recent "man-on-the-side" DDOS attack via the great firewall on github. There is also a healthy business for buying and selling vulnerabilities and exploits and the .gov organizations are known buyers.
So yes, I think it is fair to say that "hacking has left teenage basements". That part of the statement the gp's statement it obviously true when you look at say sophisticated carder rings.
> Source? Particularly with respect to "weaponized". The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.
Arguably it has been "weaponized" by the NSA and their allies. See, stuxnet and related threats. There is good reason to believe other nation state actors also have "weaponized" threats. For instance the recent "man-on-the-side" DDOS attack via the great firewall on github. There is also a healthy business for buying and selling vulnerabilities and exploits and the .gov organizations are known buyers.
So yes, I think it is fair to say that "hacking has left teenage basements". That part of the statement the gp's statement it obviously true when you look at say sophisticated carder rings.