We hear about pirating every day in our little technology universe, but it is usually about downloading a movie, TV show, or song that was not paid for. Back in the old days, during the “Golden Age of Piracy,” pirates were a breed of scoundrel on the high seas taking over others’ vessels and then making off with their booty. It looks as though there is a new breed of scalawag that is taking some queues from Black Beard.



Within a few hours of mooring up and opening his laptop, Campbell Murray had taken complete control of a nearby multimillion-dollar superyacht.

He could easily have sailed it – and its super rich owner – off into the sunset. “We had control of the satellite communications,” said Murray, an IT specialist. “We had control of the telephone system, the Wi-Fi, the navigation … And we could wipe the data to erase any evidence of what we had done.”

I know many of us are extremely concerned with this happening to us….not. I just thought some of you might be looking for a new hobby.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Pirating of a Whole New Old Kind