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Consumer Device Hacking Concerns Getting Lost In Translation
ancientribe writes "Hackers who hack insulin pumps, heart monitors, HVAC systems, home automation systems, and cars are finding some life-threatening security flaws in these newly networked consumer devices, but their work is often dismissed or demonized by those industries and the policymakers who govern their safety. A grass-roots movement is now under way to help bridge this dangerous gap between the researcher community and consumer product policymakers and manufacturers. The security experts driving this effort appealed to the DEF CON 21 hacking conference audience to help them recruit intermediaries who can speak both hacker and consumer product and policy."
So there is this guy whom I hate. And he has a pacemaker. So what am I going to do: Find out how to build a device that stops his pacemaker and kill him, or just take a knife or a gun to do the job? Gun ownership is a much much bigger vulnerability. There are millions and millions in the USA who have the capability to kill anyone with a pacemaker. And anyone without a pacemaker as well.
So the only fear is that some shithead who has shit where other people have brains might think it is funny to kill people. Someone who thinks it is a game. Anyone who thinks that has ceased to be a human being, and should be shot like any dangerous animal. And since publishing vulnerabilities serves no purpose other than giving tools to such dangerous animals, publication should be punishable as well.
Every hour that some developer spends on fixing vulnerabilities that give opportunities to shitheads, that developer isn't working to help patients. Therefore, publishing vulnerabilities is detrimental to society.
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