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The difference being that it's tough to kill people at scale and covertly with a rifle or even poison mail. Exploiting a bug in networked pacemakers could give
by hagbardgroup 12y ago
The difference being that it's tough to kill people at scale and covertly with a rifle or even poison mail. Exploiting a bug in networked pacemakers could give you the means to kill an entire userbase.
For the train comparison, it's the difference between pushing a guy on the rails and derailing a train remotely by accelerating it remotely through a curve and disabling the manual controls.
What's the value to the user of a networked pacemaker? Maybe a lower price? There would be better ways for it to 'speak' to a network to collect data, I should think.
- fixermark 12y ago> What's the value to the user of a networked pacemaker? Maybe a lower price? Fewer surgeries to get to the physical device and change settings. Therefore, longer life expectancy. This bug might be a feature.
- hagbardgroup 12y agoExcellent point.
- DanBC 12y agoThat is just an (excellent) argument for medical devices to have some kind of connectivity to the outside world, but not for having the actual device ever connected to the Internet. Strict air gaps would be desirable.