Professional hackers have managed to crack into a smart rifle and
make it shoot the wrong target. Runa Sandvik and Michael Auge, a husband
and wife team spent almost a year working out how to hack a 13,000 dollar
trackingpoint gun which has a sophisticated auto-aim facility allowing to hit
the bulls eye from up to a mile away. The pair demonstrated their skills on a
rifle range, when they made the weapon shoot a target which was 2.5 feet away
from the intended one. Their research has an ominous resonance, because more
and more devices are now being designed to connect to the web. There are
so many things with the internet attached to them: cars, fridges, coffee
machines, and now guns.
Source - Mirror Online
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