Hacking the hospital: medical devices have terrible default security

As for my nurse example, a complete stranger could run down someone on any street or shoot them with a deer rifle.

I agree with a lot of your points, but I don’t understand your inclusion of this. I suppose you are trying to say that we can’t protect against everything, which is true.

The types of assaults you mention though are exactly the kinds of things we can’t predict, and therefore are too expensive to consider in the security model. Whether you want to call them a “Movie Plot Threat” or FUD, they just distract from the real issues here.

Sorry Boundegar. This was supposed to be a reply to dobby, but I apparently clicked on your last comment when replying to him. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to reassign the comment with the bbs software.