- Claims that communication technology is 100% secure
- Hacking a network with cheap common tools to show that those security claims are faulty
- Patent claims challenged as too broad
- Existing companies upset with new technologies breaking their business model
Sounds like the ongoing fights between Apple and Samsung or Oracle vs. Google.
“A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code
insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph”
As explained in the New Scientist article Dot-dash-diss:
The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz by Paul Marks,
a 39-year-old British music hall magician named Nevil Maskelyne was able to
thwart Guglielmo Marconi’s demonstration to the Royal Institution.
It seems that Marconi had made promises of a secure wireless network
connection only to have it hacked as they set up the demonstration, and then
again while he was selling ship-to-shore services. In both cases Maskelyne was
able to do it with inexpensive readily available tools.
The article is a good read, and tells how even as wireless
communication was starting out the seeds of telecom
fraud and patent fights were being sown.
And hear I thought that the first fraud being Alexander Bell was surprising.
And hear I thought that the first fraud being Alexander Bell was surprising.
