This sounds like a prediction of doom. This may not be a bad thing, I'm sure that Schmidtt is aware how silly it sounds but I am equally sure that it's a cautionary tale.
After all, if you want someone not to do something you don't say "it may be a bit foolish, if some nasty people do some things that they probably won't." you say "If you connect everything to a public network all hell will break loose, people will die."
Bear in mind that it's not a too far stretch of the imagination that someone will think: Hmm, if I attach a pacemaker to a datalogger I could get infomation out of it using a personal area network. from this thought it's not far to go to end up with the computer the connects to the pacemaker connecting to a private IP network, which in turn is connected, somewhere, to the internet.
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This sounds like a prediction of doom. This may not be a bad thing, I'm sure that Schmidtt is aware how silly it sounds but I am equally sure that it's a cautionary tale. After all, if you want someone not to do something you don't say "it may be a bit foolish, if some nasty people do some things that they probably won't." you say "If you connect everything to a public network all hell will break loose, people will die." Bear in mind that it's not a too far stretch of the imagination that someone will think: Hmm, if I attach a pacemaker to a datalogger I could get infomation out of it using a personal area network. from this thought it's not far to go to end up with the computer the connects to the pacemaker connecting to a private IP network, which in turn is connected, somewhere, to the internet.