On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Dan Halperin wrote: > On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Philip Balister wrote: > >> New appication for USRP+GNU radio, free subway rides :) > >> > >> http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf > >> > >> Well, at least until people learn to deploy secure systems. > > > > There's also.. > > http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/08/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off > >-your-pacemaker/ > > > > A bit more scary :( > > Please please please don't be scared by this. Yet :). We believe that > the risk to patients with today's technology is basically nil. Our > attacks took tens of seconds to minutes and required very close > range. From there it's much easier just to punch you.
Well, I don't have a pacemaker so punching would be your only method ;) The range issue could be 'improved' with a better antenna though, right? > The sentence that the article misquotes was closer to "With today's > hardware, these attacks are mostly academic. We need to develop > effective security solutions now before these types of attacks become > easier to mount." > > If I needed a pacemaker/cardiac defibrillator, I would get one > without hesitation -- including the model we investigated. Maybe you could start wearing chainmail ;) It certainly looks like it was an interesting project :) Do you have a paper on it? I had a google but the top hits are "ZOMG HACKERS WILL KILL US ALL" :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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