Being held to Ransom
Posted on May 22, 2025 |
Was the time that hacking was a particularly nasty cough, or, in certain circles, something you did on horseback. How it become what we now understand it to be is, as are most such things, slightly circuitous but centres on the idea that to hack into something is to find a short-cut, hence, back in the 1950s and 60s hackers were considered clever…which, grudgingly, may still be the case.