YetanotherHackerNewsdigest.com
HN Theater | HN Academy | HN Books

HN Theater @HNTheaterMonth

The best talks and videos of Hacker News.
Rankings: this week · month (apr/may) · year (2024) · all time
digests · search

Hacker News Comments on
DEF CON 25 - Plore - Popping a Smart Gun

DEFCONConference · Youtube · 1 HN comments
HN Theater has aggregated all Hacker News stories and comments that mention DEFCONConference's video "DEF CON 25 - Plore - Popping a Smart Gun".
Youtube Summary
Smart guns are sold with a promise: they can be fired only by authorized parties. That works in the movies, but what about in real life? In this talk, we explore the security of one of the only smart guns available for sale in the world. Three vulnerabilities will be demonstrated. First, we will show how to make the weapon fire even when separated from its owner by a considerable distance. Second, we will show how to prevent the weapon from firing even when authorized by its owner. Third, we will show how to fire the weapon even when not authorized by its owner, with no prior contact with the specific weapon, and with no modifications to the weapon.
HN Theater Rankings

Hacker News Stories and Comments

All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.
There was a presentation at DEFCON 25 (2017) by someone who obtained one of the then available smart guns and defeated it with $15 worth of common magnets.

Here's a video of the presentation from YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3f0p3vTY-c

I think it was also covered on HN at the time.

⬐ LinuxBender
Thankyou, I am surprised I missed that talk. That implementation seems rather fragile to me. Assuming everything is working as designed one would have to be wearing the watch ahead of time in a home defense situation. That is also a lot of extra moving parts that could fail especially at the range after going through a few boxes of rounds. thinking thermal issues but maybe they tested that
⬐ verdverm
The gun could run out of batteries is another. The talk goes into two other attacks as well, including denial of service
HN Theater is an independent project and is not operated by Y Combinator or any of the video hosting platforms linked to on this site.
~ yaj@
;laksdfhjdhksalkfj more things
yahnd.com ~ Privacy Policy ~
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.