About a million years ago, North America and South America drifted together. Predatory mammals invaded the southern continent and displaced the up-until-then alpha predators there: large flightless birds.
The opening up of a new ecosystem was almost immediately exploited by the newly arrived predators.
The connection to this strip is that a new ecosystem has opened up for hackers and identity thieves: the smartphone. There is an app for everything, and it runs on an OS that has no antivirus and only gets updated at the whim of the carrier who is not inclined to waste airtime on making your phone more secure.
With such easy pickings available over the air, I wonder if hackers will still bother to hunt in the land-line and limited-range wifi world of desktop computers.
dflak over 10 years ago
About a million years ago, North America and South America drifted together. Predatory mammals invaded the southern continent and displaced the up-until-then alpha predators there: large flightless birds.
The opening up of a new ecosystem was almost immediately exploited by the newly arrived predators.
The connection to this strip is that a new ecosystem has opened up for hackers and identity thieves: the smartphone. There is an app for everything, and it runs on an OS that has no antivirus and only gets updated at the whim of the carrier who is not inclined to waste airtime on making your phone more secure.
With such easy pickings available over the air, I wonder if hackers will still bother to hunt in the land-line and limited-range wifi world of desktop computers.