Anybody Can Fire This 'Locked' Smart Gun With $15 Worth of Magnets

 

Note: I'm sure this will bend someone out of shape...

For gun control advocates, a "smart" gun that only its owner can fire has promised an elusive ideal: If your phone or PC can remain locked until you prove your identity, why not your lethal weapon? Now, for the first time, a skilled hacker has taken a deep look into the security mechanisms of one leading example of those authenticated firearms. He's found that if smart guns are going to become a reality, they'll need to be smarter than this one.

At the Defcon hacker conference later this week, a hacker who goes by the pseudonym Plore plans to show off a series of critical vulnerabilities he found in the Armatix IP1, a smart gun whose German manufacturer Armatix has claimed its electronic security measures will "usher in a new era of gun safety." Plore discovered, and demonstrated to WIRED at a remote Colorado firing range, that he could hack the gun with a disturbing variety of techniques, all captured in the video above.

Prease to read more here:

https://www.wired.com/story/smart-gun-fire-magnets/

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I'm Not Quite Sure

Juggernaut wrote:

Criminals don't follow the law. They don't give a damn. Otherwise, they wouldn't be criminals, would they?

How to reference your comment when referenced to the article...

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Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!

One of these days the nannys

One of these days the nannys will prevail and the only "SAFE" gun will be the one that does not fire because it will not accept ammunition. That way they don't have to worry about taking guns off the market.

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Don't Worry...

KenSny wrote:

One of these days the nannys will prevail and the only "SAFE" gun will be the one that does not fire because it will not accept ammunition. That way they don't have to worry about taking guns off the market.

Then we'll be using lasers to burn each other in half! razz

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BarneyBadass wrote:

How to reference your comment when referenced to the article...

It really isn't hard to figure out.

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