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I wonder what the odds are that an attack on infrastructure like this could kill someone?
by justforFranz 9y ago
I wonder what the odds are that an attack on infrastructure like this could kill someone?
- astrodust 9y agoI honestly do not care if people use a proprietary closed-source operating system, but it freaks me out on an existential level that important things that might kill you are closed source. Life support machines, x-ray machines, heart-rate monitoring machines, even voting machines. Nobody knows what's going on in there, and a software fault or hack could be the end of you. Like that Toyota "unintended acceleration" bug which would've been discovered a lot sooner had other people been looking at the code. This is also coupled with the fact that these vendors, for reasons that challenge the absolute limits of my comprehension, insist on using old versions of Windows. I would not be surprised if equipment of that sort sold today still runs unpatched versions Windows XP. ATMs and cash-registers are likewise a total farce. Some of them are packaged so poorly it should be criminal.
- synotna 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
- astrodust 9y agoEvery time I go through one of the airport scanners I think about that particular event. Who knows if an intern forgot to convert properly and the thing spews out a million times more radiation than intended.
- joosters 9y agoVery high. The disruption caused delayed countless operations, ambulances and GP visits. People will have missed vital medical assistance as a result, and that could easily be fatal.