Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/01/volkswagen-and-the-quandary-of-hidden-code
Though the media may be inclined to shine a spotlight on #Volkswagen and its systemic rigging of emission control systems the public record shows that the practice of secretly modifying technology to enable questionable features is fairly widespread. For example, accessing computers using hidden code is a mainstay of #NSA #surveillance and they’ve gotten so adept at it that plans have been drawn up to industrialize attacks against millions of machines at a time. (...)
#Hidden_code represents control, it represents power.