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Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices"

Posted by samzenpus on from the click-and-kill dept.

Curseyoukhan writes "Infosec vendor IID (Internet Identity) probably hopes that by the time 2014 rolls around no one will remember the prediction it just made. That is the year it says we will see the first murder via internet connected device. The ability to do this has been around for quite some time but the company won't say why it hasn't happened yet. Probably because that would have screwed up their fear marketing. CIO blogger challenges them to a $10K bet over their claim."

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  1. Already been a novel about this... by APL+bigot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Murder via internet (and a lot more), committed by someone who is dead. "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez. Interesting read. There is also a sequel, "Freedom".

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    Heisenberg may have been here.
  2. Hasn't it happened numerous times already? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most remotely-triggered bombs made by extremists of various kinds are triggered by cellphones - so true in fact that some countries shut down their cell networks preventively. Cellphones use some kind of radio network and proprietary protocol for the last mile, but essentially, beyond that, telephony is entirely IP-based these days. You can even call a cellphone from a PC now with programs like Skype.

    So I think essentially all recent bombing attacks can be called "murder by internet-connected devices".

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. It's been done already. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Alot of pacemakers have wireless with none or simple security... (why i have no fucking clue why we did that...)

    100% undetectable too. Heart problems in a person with a pacemaker is not suspicious at all.

  4. Probably already happened by mseeger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IID predicts for 2013 that criminals will leverage networked healthcare devices to carry out murders. My counter-theory is, that the first murder probably has already occurred; we and the police just didn't notice it. So 2013 may be the year the first murder via Internet device is proven.

    During a BKA (German version of the FBI) conference, i made a remark that got me nationwide media attention in 2000: "In the Internet you'll find anything but murder." I wish i could say this with the same conviction today as i did back then (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BKA-hat-Muehe-mit-der-Internet-Kriminalitaet-16354.html).

    I think those happy days Daniel Suarez envisioned have already arrived.