Diabetes pump takes commands over unencrypted radio signals.
But it’s okay, cause the FBI says the public doesn’t need encryption.
#EveryonesAHacker
Diabetes pump takes commands over unencrypted radio signals.
But it’s okay, cause the FBI says the public doesn’t need encryption.
#EveryonesAHacker
Not to worry.. The UN has taken over domain control…The feeble minded folks KNOW that if it’s not in the Media or on the WEB…It never happened….A bump in the night is fiction.What can go Wrong if your search is re-directed to sanitized information….
This could simply be a result of a simple design flaw rather than malice. Many electronic devices can be effected by spurious signals because they lack shielding (often left out to save money) or parts of the hardware act as an antenna (changing the impedance might solve that).
I work in this field.
It’s not malice, and it’s not a design flaw. It’s just laziness. A great many firmware developers don’t know anything about software engineering, and proper communications security is Hard. You’d be surprised the number of firmware developers, even today, whose attitude towards this is “it’ll never happen, so we’re not going to bother”.
Interesting. Are you in Ottawa and is there a need for HW development?
Anything affecting the body must undergo strict EMI testing.
Laziness in the design process such as you mentioned can lead to shortcomings or flaws in systems. Ultimately, it comes down to whether someone is willing to pay to make them completely resistant to spurious signals.
That wasn’t my point.
As an amateur radio operator, I have to deal with interference from a variety of sources. Much of that could be avoided if, for example, manufacturers include electromagnetic shielding in TV sets which will, of course, add to their cost.
Unfortunately, there’s little I can do when someone switches on their set and it puts out all sorts of noise on the frequency band I happen to be operating on, effectively making that part of the spectrum useless to me.
Similarly, I used to have a set of computer loudspeakers that would pick up anything I did with one of my radios as their cables acted like antennas. The result was that even if I simply keyed my microphone, I could hear it in the speakers.
One way around that is by changing the impedance of those cables so that they resonate at a different frequency. A simple way to do that would be to add an inductance, such as a ferrite bead.
There’s also the fact that anything around an electronic device can affect its performance. One can tune an antenna to work on a certain frequency and, some time later, that antenna won’t work properly because there’s something that’s been placed nearby which changes the antenna’s radiation pattern. That happens to me a lot with the FM tuner I have on my stereo system. One of my neighbours has to simply move, say, a piece of furniture and I have to fiddle with the antenna to get a decent signal.
THAT woman running Yahoo (into the ground) allowed Hillary Clinton’s FBI to “Lean-in” and spy on ALL my personal emails. I am certain that Hillary was none too pleased with all the posts I make here. God knows what “words and phrases” I have typed out here that are in the FBI’s (Hillary’s) files ? shame on me for not setting-up my own personal server and smashing my last laptop to Office Space bits.
I agree with you about Marissa Mayer. She’s incompetent, much like Carly Fiorina was when she ran Hewlett-Packard. HP, however, seems to have a death wish as it seems to choose CEOs who are completely incapable of making money, so she wasn’t unusual in that respect.
IIRC, VP Cheney chose to have the “wireless” features of his pacemaker disabled because of concerns about potential hacking.
“…takes commands over unencrypted radio signals.”
So does your “Smart” electric meter from the electric company. Its just an embedded Linux box, the network password is probably “password”.
Are we having fun yet?
Kanata, actually, and we almost always have openings.