this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
666 points (97.4% liked)

Technology

59192 readers
2283 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
666
Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station (www.fox2detroit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
151 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station::undefined

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] peopleproblems 9 points 1 year ago

I very distinctly remember early bluetooth amongst other interfaces explicitly discussed in college as an example of "enabling things to understand eachother, including things that shouldn't." It's up to the developer to protect their data.

There is a problem here that isn't just a hardware/software issue, it's a "I'm not gonna worry about it" problem that leads to security issues.