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Affectionate-Cell614 t1_it5erdp wrote

Reply to comment by metalmagician in Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns by mossadnik

systems are vulnerable to hacking because they have multiple points of attack. like giant banking companies with thousands of systems across a large geographic area, so there is bound to be one vulnerability somewhere. this is a robot with one controller.

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metalmagician t1_it5kjgl wrote

I know very little about modern exploits (take this with a pinch of salt), but I imagine one could exploit the bots like so:

  • software updates will need to be periodically installed to the dog. I really really doubt they wouldn't update the software after release, given how novel the bots are

  • the software updates will be authenticated somehow, to ensure that "only" the software vendor is the author of an update.

  • if an attacker can successfully impersonate the software vendor, they could load malware onto the robot through the existing update process. This would be similar to the attack that came through SolarWinds

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