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I didn't go to the site, but the part about being able to hack sniper rifles is correct. It wasn't some complex nation-state level hack, it was just standard I

• donw 8y ago
  Hopefully this isn't too political of a reply, but this is a great example as to why there is such a lack of interest in "smart guns" -- e.g., weapons that require a fingerprint, a special ring, or some other electronic safety interlock. Not just because of the potential to be hacked, but also because electronics have a wider variety of failure modes as compared to the mechanical bits, most of which have remained both highly reliable and functionally unchanged over fifty, if not a hundred, years. Especially when you consider that, at least when it comes to safety, there's so much low-hanging fruit on the education and awareness front. Regardless of where you stand on the politics, it seems pretty straightforward that, in a country that today has more guns than people, that safety education should be part of school curricula at multiple points. On that note, we should probably also make sure everybody knows how to properly use a fire extinguisher, and I'm not sure we teach that, either... :/