But having it on a kettle or coffee maker or a rice cooker makes no sense.
On a kettle, no.
I'd love it on a coffee maker because I actually use the delay brew feature. Give me a clock that adjust for DST and a delay brew that I can sync to my schedule and I'd be kinda happy.
DST compensation in itself could, IMHO, justify anything with a clock capability to be IoT capable.
It might be useful on a rice cooker (or anything else that takes a long time) for notifying you when it's done cooking.
... of course developers use many other editor tools, but proper support of the terminal and vi is essential for a serious server-software (back end software, or IT admin) development box.
What, you guys don't like nano?
I kid, I kid... I have to "apt-get purge nano" on new installs too...
A good rule of thumb is that if a large telco thinks a major business decision is good idea, it's probably bad for consumers.
There's obvious exceptions to this rule... building out and maintaining telco infrastructure is usually a good idea, but even there you have to scrutinize the fine print or you'll find your copper landlines left degrading while they roll out fibre and wireless.
... as of October 6th the number of endorsements for Donald Trump among major American newspapers sat at a big fat zero.
That's a bit of a no-brainer, really.
One thing Trump has said (and stuck with) is that he wants to open up libel laws. No news organization anywhere on the political spectrum wants their job to get harder or more expensive.
But it's a pretty minor league attack against the "internet". Twitter is down? The NYT?
I was just reading a Facebook comment from a friend about a hospital basically shutting down... presumably they had a dependency on something "in the cloud".
Now, I'll certainly grant that said hospital fucked up beyond belief by having that dependency, and I'd hope that heads will roll over it, but the impact seems to go beyond mere entertainment.
Given the shit which regularly comes out of his mouth, I shudder to think what would be a skeleton in the closet for The Donald. I suspect it would have to be the actual skeletons of 12 year old mexican boys before his fan base would actually turn on him.
Yeah, that's the quote everyone highlights, but he's a bit more nuanced about it when he's maybe a bit less pissed. Two e-mails in, you have http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/l...:
Killing machines because somebody made an assumption that was wrong is not ok.
Killing the machine is ok if we have a situation where there literally is no other choice.
If you actually read the thread, that's basically where he says it's appropriate, and only then.
The problem appears to be that people are using that feature in situations where recovery is feasible and desirable, or they're using it under the assumption that it only impacts people running special development kernels.
My wife's Medtronic Insulin pump requires actually pushing an acknowledgment button before it will deliver insulin.
My wife just switched to an OmniPod, which doesn't have a UI of any sort on the pump unit itself. The controller commnunicates with the pump using what I believe is 433MHz FSK coding, and quite frankly I'm a terrified to start playing with a 433MHz capture board within range of her because I have a bad feeling about what I'll find...
That main thing that prevents a bolus overdose attack is that pumps make enough noise when they dispense a bolus that the wearer would notice it. However, if you increased the basal (especially overnight) it's quite possible they wouldn't catch that...
Actually, the effort required to do this hack is quite high...
Not it isn't.
Actually, I don't know for sure either way, but you have to be a fool to bet that it is. History has shown very consistently that security holes in any given product are always easier to exploit than the vendor will admit to, and they become less and less difficult as time passes without a proper fix.
Off hand, from the attack demo video the guy is running it off a Pi with a USB RF dongle... probably an obvious application of RTL-SDR. I suspect the biggest hurdle is that you'd need access to one of these pumps to build your attach tool.
An overdoes of insulin is indeed dangerous and can cause death if left untreated for an extended time...
You meant "underdose".
An overdose of insulin lowers blood glucose and results in hypoglycemia, which is extremely dangerous and can cause death very quickly if the diabetic happens to be doing something like, say, driving and doesn't catch the symptoms or blood sugar drops far too quickly. Being asleep would be another bad time to have glucose levels bottom out
Funny that type of thing never seems to happen in the real world.
That we know of.
But no, I don't think it's happening much yet. Their wireless tech is still quite primitive. I don't think it's going to be a real problem until manufacturers start putting these things on the Internet and open them up to the same people turning IP cameras into botnets. They'll be adding smartphone integration first, of course (most of these devices upload data via USB currently), but inevitably they'll add wifi integration. If they don't learn something about security before then it's going to be bad.
Considering the proximty and time required for a successful hack
"Time required" is dependent on how often the devices generate the packets you'd need to hack. Odds are if you park yourself in the middle of a food court or restaurant you'll find a few victims quite easily since pump users need to tweak settings when they sit down to eat.
As far as proximity or someone being smart enough to do it... it doesn't sound like rocket science and I wouldn't bet against it. A laptop with a $10 RTL2832U/R820T2 dongle is enough to mess with 900MHz signals, so if someone comes up with a script then it's a good bet that a bored dipshit would find it funny to fire it up somewhere.
... the ordinary mousetrap is humane, effective, reusable, and available in multiple sizes. They kill instantly; you'll never find a mousetrap with a live rodent wiggling around in it.
Just don't try to use mouse traps on rats. In my last house I discovered we had rats when the mouse traps started to disappear. I had to anchor the things and then add some rat traps.
It would've saved a lot of grief if I could have allowed my cats into the basement of that place.
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Well, I'd use an ESP 8266 and relay, but my wife would have an easier time with an out-of-the-box experience...
On a kettle, no.
I'd love it on a coffee maker because I actually use the delay brew feature. Give me a clock that adjust for DST and a delay brew that I can sync to my schedule and I'd be kinda happy.
DST compensation in itself could, IMHO, justify anything with a clock capability to be IoT capable.
It might be useful on a rice cooker (or anything else that takes a long time) for notifying you when it's done cooking.
Well, how else is the webcam going to publish a stream?
Yeah... while Intel's trying to breed T-rex's, the rest of the IoT world is standardizing on velociraptors.
What, you guys don't like nano?
I kid, I kid... I have to "apt-get purge nano" on new installs too...
A good rule of thumb is that if a large telco thinks a major business decision is good idea, it's probably bad for consumers.
There's obvious exceptions to this rule... building out and maintaining telco infrastructure is usually a good idea, but even there you have to scrutinize the fine print or you'll find your copper landlines left degrading while they roll out fibre and wireless.
If you're flying a camera drone in Sweden, just tell them you're documenting the crime of flying a camera drone in Sweden...
That's a bit of a no-brainer, really.
One thing Trump has said (and stuck with) is that he wants to open up libel laws. No news organization anywhere on the political spectrum wants their job to get harder or more expensive.
I believe it's a Canadian hospital, so its executives might have a different sort of accountability. I hope.
I was just reading a Facebook comment from a friend about a hospital basically shutting down... presumably they had a dependency on something "in the cloud".
Now, I'll certainly grant that said hospital fucked up beyond belief by having that dependency, and I'd hope that heads will roll over it, but the impact seems to go beyond mere entertainment.
I expect there'd be a contract to work at Microsoft for a year or two...
From what I've seen of him, I'd have to assume he would.
Built-in ODB-II bluetooth and USB connection. There's no longer an acceptable excuse for not including those features.
I'd expect the boys were alive when he started...
This.
Given the shit which regularly comes out of his mouth, I shudder to think what would be a skeleton in the closet for The Donald. I suspect it would have to be the actual skeletons of 12 year old mexican boys before his fan base would actually turn on him.
... Apple should be able to knock at least another 2-3mm of thickness off the iPhone with these things.
Yeah, that's the quote everyone highlights, but he's a bit more nuanced about it when he's maybe a bit less pissed. Two e-mails in, you have http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/l...:
If you actually read the thread, that's basically where he says it's appropriate, and only then.
The problem appears to be that people are using that feature in situations where recovery is feasible and desirable, or they're using it under the assumption that it only impacts people running special development kernels.
My wife just switched to an OmniPod, which doesn't have a UI of any sort on the pump unit itself. The controller commnunicates with the pump using what I believe is 433MHz FSK coding, and quite frankly I'm a terrified to start playing with a 433MHz capture board within range of her because I have a bad feeling about what I'll find...
That main thing that prevents a bolus overdose attack is that pumps make enough noise when they dispense a bolus that the wearer would notice it. However, if you increased the basal (especially overnight) it's quite possible they wouldn't catch that...
Not it isn't.
Actually, I don't know for sure either way, but you have to be a fool to bet that it is. History has shown very consistently that security holes in any given product are always easier to exploit than the vendor will admit to, and they become less and less difficult as time passes without a proper fix.
Off hand, from the attack demo video the guy is running it off a Pi with a USB RF dongle... probably an obvious application of RTL-SDR. I suspect the biggest hurdle is that you'd need access to one of these pumps to build your attach tool.
You meant "underdose".
An overdose of insulin lowers blood glucose and results in hypoglycemia, which is extremely dangerous and can cause death very quickly if the diabetic happens to be doing something like, say, driving and doesn't catch the symptoms or blood sugar drops far too quickly. Being asleep would be another bad time to have glucose levels bottom out
That we know of.
But no, I don't think it's happening much yet. Their wireless tech is still quite primitive. I don't think it's going to be a real problem until manufacturers start putting these things on the Internet and open them up to the same people turning IP cameras into botnets. They'll be adding smartphone integration first, of course (most of these devices upload data via USB currently), but inevitably they'll add wifi integration. If they don't learn something about security before then it's going to be bad.
"Time required" is dependent on how often the devices generate the packets you'd need to hack. Odds are if you park yourself in the middle of a food court or restaurant you'll find a few victims quite easily since pump users need to tweak settings when they sit down to eat.
As far as proximity or someone being smart enough to do it... it doesn't sound like rocket science and I wouldn't bet against it. A laptop with a $10 RTL2832U/R820T2 dongle is enough to mess with 900MHz signals, so if someone comes up with a script then it's a good bet that a bored dipshit would find it funny to fire it up somewhere.
IMHO, the threshold between "clone" and "fork" is whether the forks are available to the original/main branch.
A major beef is that these cloners take the designs, but contribute nothing back.
Fortunately for the suspect, arming a robot isn't a criminal offence or they'd probably charge him for it.
Just don't try to use mouse traps on rats. In my last house I discovered we had rats when the mouse traps started to disappear. I had to anchor the things and then add some rat traps.
It would've saved a lot of grief if I could have allowed my cats into the basement of that place.