Your iPhone could be hacked right now, DMV

Here's what people need to understand— I woke up, poured some Ethiopian coffee, and saw this mess about Russian hackers using something called "DarkSword" to get into iPhones. iPhones, y'all! Not some janky burner phone from a corner store on Minnesota Avenue. We're talking about devices that people out here in Georgetown are paying a monthly bill higher than some folks' rent for. The FBI buying our location data is one thing, betam annoying, but hackers just *taking* it? That's a whole other level of 'bama activity.

This is exactly why I side-eye all these "smart city" initiatives they keep trying to push in the District. Imagine if something like DarkSword hit our traffic light system, or worse, the Metro's entire network. We already got trains derailing and doors flying open on their own, we don't need hackers adding to the chaos. This city runs on federal employees and their iPhones, and if you think the bureaucracy is slow *now*, imagine if everyone's phone got bricked trying to do their agency's two-factor authentication. We'd have a full-blown government shutdown, not because of Congress, but because of some rogue code. That's the District, DMV — no vote, all heart, and apparently, no digital privacy either.

Selam Tesfaye-Williams, out.

Y'all gotta hear Keith's take on this mess every morning at mornings.live.