{"id":130965,"date":"2021-11-20T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/can-time-be-hacked-heres-how-one-hacker-demonstrated-it-can"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:23:37","slug":"can-time-be-hacked-heres-how-one-hacker-demonstrated-it-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/can-time-be-hacked-heres-how-one-hacker-demonstrated-it-can","title":{"rendered":"Can Time Be Hacked? Here\u2019s How One Hacker Demonstrated It Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-time-be-hacked-heres-how-one-hacker-demonstrated-it-can.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cher sang about manipulating it while Doctor Who dramatized it. This hacker went one better and did it. Here\u2019s how time got hacked.<\/p>\n<p>During a 1961 address to the National Association of Manufacturers in New York City, John F. Kennedy said that \u201cwe must use time as a tool, not as a couch.\u201d Fast forward fifty years, and one hacker has demonstrated exactly how to do that: by hacking time.<\/p>\n<p>What is time anyway? What is time? That\u2019s not an easy question to answer definitively.<\/p>\n<p>Just go and search for a definition, and you\u2019ll see what I mean. However, from the broader technological perspective, time depends on how we measure it: it is what those measurements tell us. So, what if those measurements, even ones from the most accurate atomic clock sources around the planet, could be manipulated?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of hacking time. Welcome to the world of Adam Laurie, the lead hardware hacker with the veteran hacking team that is IBM X-Force Red. It\u2019s worth remembering at this point that hacking is not a crime, and this story serves well to illustrate the fact.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher sang about manipulating it while Doctor Who dramatized it. This hacker went one better and did it. Here\u2019s how time got hacked. During a 1961 address to the National Association of Manufacturers in New York City, John F. Kennedy said that \u201cwe must use time as a tool, not as a couch.\u201d Fast forward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}