Why the fuck were the fridges at blood banks connected the internet?
What bumbling fool would do such a thing?
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I see, a lot of people here have failed (again) to recognize a rhetorical question, two even.
@aesthr
Criminal neglect and state sponsored hackers
@aesthr I can see why you would want read-only access to the temperature via the internet, to know when something was wrong. But write access?
@aesthr How else will they mine bitcoins?
@aesthr Having previously managed a medical laboratory, we had fridges (including blood banking) that were connected online for alarm monitoring so that alerts of out of range temperatures were immediately escalated to someone who could do something about it.
However, there was no remote control of temperatures or other conditions - this was purely the monitoring system.
Must be the same who uses Microsoft Windows to control critical hospital equipment that is monitored remotely by ... connecting it to the internet. (I mean, at least use a private LAN?) The UK's NHS was hit hard not too many years ago. So were Barcelona's hospitals. Both with ransomware.
@aesthr I guess so they can quickly spoil all the blood in case of vampires. That's all I can think of.
@aesthr i have fifteen years of talks, me on stage, flailing my arms around, screaming "WHY?!" - i took these talks all over the world. the only people who seemed to care were the attackers. I even ended up as a meme from one of them
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@aesthr
Why would anyone in their right mind want to connnect everything to tje internet? Offline, fridges and other critical devices can't be hacked. And most devices need to be checked and cleaned regularly by people on premise anyway, so I don't see the benefit of hooking that stuff up to the internet.
@aesthr
Hybrid cyberwarfare requires testing of your fossil fuel funded tech overlords are to be placated.