Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio mention in DEFCON subway presentation

[Dan Halperin]

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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.

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.

- -Dan
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