It seems that a Polish boy hacked a Transit system in Lozd Poland. He used a modified remote control to take over the switch system on the trams. This unfortunately caused a train to derail and some injuries. With the increase of curiosity of technology there will always be these cases, but it is amazing that a 14-year old boy can hack a cities complicated transit system. Accomplishing such a thing with a modified TV remote control is quite a task. People do fear that there is an increase in hacking devices, however, it is in human nature to be curious and try to compete with everything around us. For minds that work with electronics and computer sciences that is what hacking is about, however, in a way without hacking we wouldn’t be making these products safer and better or understanding how they work.

I say bring it on. Let the kids hack, learn how to build remote controls that will control things beyond your wildest dreams. Nicola Tesla created the first remote control over a hundred years ago and everyone thought he was using his mind to control a boat. We need to get out of the dark ages and embrace the curiosity that people have; this is the type of innovation that new forms of technology are created.