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Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year
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The world's first "online murder" over an internet-connected device could happen by the end of this year, Europol has warned. Research carried out by the European Union's law enforcement agency has found that governments are not equipped to fight the growing threat of "online murder," as cyber criminals start to exploit internet technologies to target victims physically. The study, which was published last week, analyzed the possible physical dangers linked to cyber criminality and found that a rise in "injury and possible deaths" could be expected as computer hackers launch attacks on critical connected equipment. The assessment particularly referred to a report by IID, a U.S. security firm, which forecast that the world's first murder via a "hacked internet-connected device" would happen by the end of 2014.
Challenge accepted?
That monitor mounted, usb powered (web) gun wasn't the best purchase?
all you have to do is call cops on an unsuspecting victim at night, especially if the person in question has guns in the house and may use them to attempt and protect himself from some sort of an attack. At this point cops in the US are militarised enough and are fucked in the head just enough to attack and shoot first and ask questions later, so that's a way to do it if you are into that kind of a thing.
You can't handle the truth.
Reminds me of the AI that can kill
The combination to the air shield is 1-2-3-4-5.
The day is near when we can finally stab people in the face over the internet.
We wouldn't need to discuss this if the medical device manufacturers stopped using consumer-grade wireless radios and protocols. But of course that would cost more money to research and develop, yada yada yada. There's a cheap solution to this problem, however. Dispense with the tinfoil hats and go for a full-blown tinfoil body wrap. Problem solved!
Do NOT Internet-enable the wheeled stabbing machine I am currently working on...
oh..that's what it's for!
4wdloop
Please use TOR when fetching My ventilator's new firmware.
And while yer add it, pls remove the rootkit from the darn Dialysis machine. My granddaughter charged Her iPhone from it's usb port.
My blood salts have been through the roof ever since....
PS:
My wheelchair threatens to ran me off cliff, if the payment isn't complete in three days.
Perhaps the creators of the equipment will finally spend a little time on how they will make their products secure! Is it really that hard?
Give whole new meaning to the famous mid 90s exploit instantly blue screening all Windows and locking up Linux 2.0.30 and below kernels by popping port 139.
Make it literal :-P
My gut tells me it's going to be a 14 or 15 year old boy who does it for the yuks, and doesn't really have a grasp on what a horrible thing it is.
#DeleteChrome
Power grid crashed, life sustaining equipment shuts down.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/...
Seems like we've been murdering people with connected devices for about a decade already - drones.
If it's sanguine to place bets, my money's on an Internet accessible, or controlled, car killing its driver or targeting a pedestrian.
F.U.D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Anyone else getting a bit fed up with all this fear BS?
I'm I alone in feeling like our governments are treating us like a herd of sheep using fear to herd us and control us?
Only earlier today we had a post about giving up freedoms so we can be better protected.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/07/0235241/brits-must-trade-digital-freedoms-for-safety-says-crime-agency-boss
Now another article where we are again being told that a free internet is a physical threat to us and we can be murdered online. ...."found that governments are not equipped to fight the growing threat of "online murder", ..".
The solution - give up our freedom online.
How long until a post like this is blacked out as "unsafe".
Who is it really unsafe for?
Someone just killed my dog, why?
What a load of cyber BS ..
The framers of the constitution could not possibly have anticipated a world with such a thing as this "murder".
Make your victim stand in front of the PC and....
while true; do
eject
done;
When ordered by a government agency?
... & blow your family to smithereens!
http://i.imgur.com/0BSZXxl.jpg
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
Nah, whomever it is will retroactively have been an evil pedophile all along. No one murdered their Ex in a drunken rage, a brave Ferguson officer saved thousands of babies by ending this monster's life minutes before the logs and child-porn first appeared on his hard drive.
Are you seriously going to complain about someone saving children with the newest compliance-tool?
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to hack as your TCP/IP
Who cares if someone uses the internet to murder my Facebook account? On the other hand, if it's real world murder, then it's just as much murder regardless of how it was done.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
From their stolen bent iphone, no less.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...
Or - of course, just including the control character "EOU" in any message sent:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...
Ah, a deliciously nerdy reference to the famous IRC quote, one of the top-rated ones on the quote database:
:D-< :D|-< :D/-<
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re>get up
<Zybl0re>get on up
<phxl|paper>and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
So, does this mean we can now punch people in the face over TCP/IP?
The first link in the summary is to a news report with the headline "First online murder to happen by the end of 2014, warns Europol". When you read the story, what it actually claims is
And the reference that it mentions is right here and says
No mention of 2014. No assertion that it will happen: just that it might.
TL;DR: Europol isn't predicting an online murder in 2014. That's just a subeditor who either didn't understand the plain English of the reporter or who chose to outright lie when writing the headline in order to sensationalise it.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/sgctZ...
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
It's already happened if you total up all the hours people have wasted here, on FaceBook, and various other places. Not to mention all the seat time developing it. Sitting down all the time is bad for your health. OK... not "murder" in the classic sense; but taking lives for profit anyway.
But online murders have been happening for a while, via military UAVs...
My guess is it's going to be C0lMu5+rd in the IRC chat-room with the FDA-Pee-Hole-Device int-range overflow exploit! How'd I do?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Would smashing oneself over the head with a #@%& Comcast modem count?
Table-ized A.I.
So is that maybe what happened when the Roomba ate my parakeet ?
Yep, that's it...the bird was hacked!
Currently there are thousands of heart pacemakers which wirelessly connect to interrogator devices that sit next to the bed every night. Those devices check the device every night and check in with the company if there's any problem.
Is it impossible to reprogram those interrogators? The manufacturers say so. I guess we should believe them?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
That's what I tried to explain to my neighbour when my AirDrone 'inexplicably' went through his greenhouse, destroying his precious, award winning rose.
Hundred of Bombs have been exploded via cellphones, is it really that more 'modern' if it's done via SIP or Skype?
I can't remember exactly which book, but the book pointed out how easy it could be.
Ignore messing around with firmware etc. The book foretold the story that someone would be using a online take out service/delivery service and they had setup all their allergies so that any restaurant saw a red flag and to be careful what goes in the meal. Someone hacks into just-eat or whomever the provider is. The customers Peanut allergy suddenly goes away on the notes and the dish is prepared as normal a week later. Instant severe incident if not death.
I'm so glad I don't have food allergies.
http://www.writeitfor.us - Writing IT for the IT generation.
We need more of these stories so we can know what is going to be the future for our children.
Then we must allow the government to tax us for the new 3 letter acronymed organization it will put in place to track and protect us.
The book Daemon by Daniel Suarez was pretty good. Started out just the littlest bit cheesy -- someone was killed by the Internet! -- but I'm glad I stuck with it because it quickly became really good. The sequel, Freedom (TM), did nothing for me.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
My gut tells me
When my gut speaks, it's usually with low, growling voice and a terrible halitosis.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I'm sorry but how do you not ONLY laugh your ass off at this?
Online murder. What is this, 90's hollywood? Current hollywood? It's like that scene in Forgetting Sarah Marshall where russell brand and jason segel are making fun of "Sarah"'s movie where a cellphone murders people. As Russel Brand says "It's ridiculous."
This cannot and will not happen. You can't murder someone digitally. You could theoretically - VERY theoretically - hack a tangible piece of equipment with which to mruder them. Assuming any of those things had network connectivity. Guess what, they don't, because there's no reason for them to, and never will be. You'd sooner be able to hack a military assault robot to kill someone with - something also decades and decades in the future.
Who's to say the challenge hasn't already been met, yet overlooked...
I assume that the threat refers to malicious software commonly known as viruses and trojans, which notoriously plague Windows, from all OSes. So now using this system you're not only risking your data, finance, but also your life. And you have to pay for the thing. Nice.
KABOOM!
I've got more important things to worry about.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That sounds like an innovative business method patent for assassins:
Claim 1: Murder, using a computing device consisting of a visual display and keyboard orchestrated using the internet.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Murder is Haraam, so no true Muslim will be doing this.
Technological progress continues apace.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
This add a whole new meaning to the term Hacker!
That is an old shoe by now. Do you remember that Journalist whose car exploded? The engine was forund several meters from his car. Although it's not offical, it's extremely likely that his car was hacked. (trying to find source)
Step 1. Weaponize my "Laser" printer
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Online murder
"He is so stupid. And now back to the wall!" Moe Szyslak
Murder is Haraam, so no true Muslim will be doing this.
Take your fucking taqiyya elsewhere
"FOOLS! I have invented a USB device which can collect votes from the Internet and drive a knife through your heart!"
http://achewood.com/index.php?...
Can't help but think that drone pilots in Nevada are not in some way linked to drones via internet. Plenty of people have been killed this way.
In the same department as making someones CPU a grenade.
I'm seriously tired of this Recycled in CyberSPACE bullshit.
Curious to know why my awesome comment was deleted. Horse shit.
Other authors have imagined this death over the internet bit too. Null Pointer, by Johnny Batch.
http://www.amazon.com/Null-Pointer-Joshua-Jones-Mystery-ebook/dp/B002L6GMMG
Have you *read* Null Pointer by Johnny Batch? You should, because it's all about an online murder that only a programmer can solve. http://www.amazon.com/Null-Poi... http://www.barnesandnoble.com/...
Seriously? 150+ comments and no one posts that the first "online murder" will be accompanied by a "First!!" comment when it happens?
When all of your wishes have been granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed - Marilyn Manson
Published 2011.
Murder by hacking of internet-connected devices (such as an automated enema-delivering wank-bot which got loaded up with dietary additives that killed the wankee) was a major plot element.
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