Hacktivists and Watch Dogs: however real-world threats impressed Ubisoft Montreal's new open-world

Once relegated to camp and inaccurate parodies in Hollywood movies, hacking is more and more changing into a region of our daily lives. With the PlayStation Network, LinkedIn, Twitter and, last, Target all being attacked, furthermore because the numberless attacks fielded by varied "hacktivist" teams, technology and security problems have become not possible to ignore. The cluster called LulzSec, a disparate band of anarchists, managed to require down over a dozen websites and services, as well as the PSN, for months.

As our world becomes more and more interconnected, the potential vulnerabilities grow exponentially. Our lives, and particularly the infrastructure on that they bank, have not been a lot of vulnerable. If Watch Dogs – Ubisoft's recently delayed open-world, multiplatform title – might be aforementioned to own some extent, that will be it.

"People ought to question technology and their relationship thereto," one among several on the Watch Dogs team that have set to to 'take management of their digital lives,' tells me. "The a lot of we tend to place ourselves within the on-line world the simpler it's to be exploited, and plenty of folks ar fully blind to how briskly their world is ever-changing."