Tim Berners-Lee Warns Hackers Could Exploit Open Data To Wreak Real-World Chaos

"Creator of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that hackers could exploit open data to wreak chaos on in the physical world.

The Guardian reports that Berners-Lee, while an advocate of open data and the co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI), said there was a need for the government to find ways to protect open data sets effectively to prevent them from being tampered with by malicious actors."