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> And all those TVs and fridges. And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware. /s

It's not the pacemaker malware you want to worry about, it's the pacemaker ransomware!



You're not thinking like a modern *aaS company. I'm waiting for subscription-based pacemakers. $9.95/mo for up to 60 beats per minute or $19.95 for unlimited heartbeats. Sign up for a year now and get an additional 3 months free :)


"We hope this message finds you with your beats still strong and rhythmic. It is with a heavy heart (pun fully intended) that we, at PulsarTech, your trusted provider of the world's first Internet-connected pacemaker, announce the discontinuation of our heartbeat-as-a-service (HaaS) platform. Yes, it’s time to say goodbye to those sweet, life-sustaining firmware updates and cloud-synced palpitations."


I'm hoping that in this hypothetical there is an OpenHeart group that shared software and build scripts for self-hosting the heartbeat cadence functionality.


> $9.95/mo for up to 60 beats per minute or $19.95 for unlimited heartbeats.

If a company ever did this, I bet they'd charge at least 10 times more than that.


And don't forget OTA updates

"Don't die during reboot"


He said peacemaker, I assume hes talking about colt single action revolver.


Good point. Maybe you have an occasion to defend yourself and the weapon won't unlock [1] before depositing some BTC [2].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/05/sentinl-gun-lock/

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-used-r...




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