who's the ultimate victim of hacking?

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

Food for thought. As our lives are getting more dependant on ubiquitous technology, it would be remiss to not consider what the dangers these dependencies may create.

Computer hacking has been very much on the agenda recently. In simple terms, there are three kinds of hacking taking place. "Hacktivism" is the most prominent: raids by amateur groups such as Lulz (who took down sites belonging to the CIA, the Senate, and the Spanish police) or Anonymous (PayPal, PlayStation, MasterCard, and Visa), either for fun, "for the lulz" - or, increasingly, as an act of political protest. Then there's the criminal kind - professionals hunting for credit card details, or email address directories, with the aim of selling them on for profit. While the PlayStation systems were first hacked by hactivists, a second breach was made by cyber criminals who had more commercial ends. And finally, there's state-sponsored espionage, or even cyber-warfare...

via Patrick Clair