Current Events 3

https://www.polygon.com/22988960/elden-ring-invader-hack-corrupted-save-file-fix

(I swear I didn’t chose this article just because I wanted to talk about Elden Ring. Promise.) For my second book post I read The Cult of the Dead Cow, a documentary-style novel about the most prestigious hacking group in history. Though they’d go on to coin the term hacktivism and push hacking to make a better, more secure internet, just about every one of them broke the law with their hacking at least once in their career, and they were the straightest hacking group out there in a purely legal sense. It’s astonishing to me how much mischief and harm many self-proclaimed harmless hackers wreak just because they can, and in Elden Ring’s case, how many people will abuse software weaknesses just for kicks and giggles at other people’s expense. That’s not to say everyone who hacks and invades is a terrible person, but rather to say if the opportunity to be terrible exists, someone will inevitably shamelessly exploit it.