Berners-Lee raises spectre of weaponized open data – Naked Security

"Practically everybody loves open data, ie “data that anyone can access, use or share”.  And nobody loves it more than Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, and co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI).

Berners-Lee and his ODI colleagues have spent years passionately evangelizing governments and companies to publicly release their non-personal data for use to improve communities.

So when he recently told the Guardian that hackers could use open data to create societal chaos, it might have been this year’s most surprising “man bites dog” news story.

What’s going on here? The growing fear of data sabotage, that’s what."