6 Technologies Designed To Harm You


Bangalore: New technologies consent to provide us with luxuries we never imagined. We can manage everything from work to life, simply with a Smartphone. Each and everything around you is getting embedded with tech. But, if you think these technologies are only used for your wellbeing, you are terribly wrong. Technology does have a dark side which can be used by others to harm you in unimaginary ways, without your knowledge.

Hackers can now simply steal your credit card by walking past you, without even touching. They can control everything, from your “connected” home appliances to your car. They can even kill you by hijacking and programming the medical devices against you.

Here is a list of such dark technologies with potentially frightening real-world consequences.

#6 ATM Skimmers

You might have heard about the old day ATM skimmers, which are secretly attached to the ATM machines. They are programmed to record and transfer the data from your ATM card’s magnetic strip into the hacker. These bulky skimmers were easy to detect as the card slot look tampered or crammed.

But the new skimmers are hi-fi and undetectable. They are small thin so that it goes directly into the card slot, leaving plenty of space for another card to pop in. Once you insert the credit or debit card at an ATM, gas station or grocery store, the skimmer will transfer information from the magnetic strip to the hacker. But the information is useless without card’s PIN and hackers have transparent, non-detectable rubber overlays, which record the victims PIN from ATM’s keypad.

Both of these can only be detected by an expert, which is not likely to happen before you lose the money.