Excuse me at being unrealistic, but I like to think that I should not be able to kill someone with a GNU Radio setup and a cheap laptop.
I am not actually afraid that people are going to start doing this, however such flaws and failures in security thinking are systemic. Bad security is not limited to insulin pumps, but insulin pumps are a great way of getting the publics attention and (hopefully) getting programmers to consider the impact their laziness could have on the world.
I like to think that I should not be able to kill someone with a GNU Radio setup and a cheap laptop.
If you want to kill someone, there are considerably cheaper options available at your local big-box store's home and garden center.
Seriously, though, I do agree with your concern for systemic problems in security thinking. Given the vastly more concentrated effort required, I don't think it's a problem that one could theoretically kill with GNU Radio and a laptop, versus any of the hundreds of tools more readily repurposed as a murder weapon, but such exploits are best addressed while they are unfeasable.
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Excuse me at being unrealistic, but I like to think that I should not be able to kill someone with a GNU Radio setup and a cheap laptop.
I am not actually afraid that people are going to start doing this, however such flaws and failures in security thinking are systemic. Bad security is not limited to insulin pumps, but insulin pumps are a great way of getting the publics attention and (hopefully) getting programmers to consider the impact their laziness could have on the world.
I like to think that I should not be able to kill someone with a GNU Radio setup and a cheap laptop.
If you want to kill someone, there are considerably cheaper options available at your local big-box store's home and garden center.
Seriously, though, I do agree with your concern for systemic problems in security thinking. Given the vastly more concentrated effort required, I don't think it's a problem that one could theoretically kill with GNU Radio and a laptop, versus any of the hundreds of tools more readily repurposed as a murder weapon, but such exploits are best addressed while they are unfeasable.