Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone

dcblogs writes: Imagine a fleet of quad copters or drones equipped with explosives and controlled by terrorists. Or someone who hacks into a connected insulin pump and changes the settings in a lethal way. Or maybe the hacker who accesses a building's furnace and thermostat controls and runs the furnace full bore until a fire is started. Those may all sound like plot material for a James Bond movie, but there are security experts who now believe, as does Jeff Williams, CTO of Contrast Security, that "the Internet of Things will kill someone". Today, there is a new "rush to connect things" and "it is leading to very sloppy engineering from a security perspective," said Williams. Similarly, Rashmi Knowles, chief security architect at RSA, imagines criminals hacking into medical devices, recently blogged about hackers using pacemakers to blackmail users, and asked: "Question is, when is the first murder?"

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Og say

[Greyfox]

One day rock be used to kill someone. Og think mankind is the real monster.

Ug say

[ArcadeMan]

One day rock be pet. Ug be rich.

Re:Already been done

[EvilSS]

Indeed. Every single bit of technology ever devised has been used to kill people. It's what we do.

Unless you're writing cheesy made-for-TV movies, nothing to see here. Move along.

I wonder if anyone has ever used click-bait to kill someone....