TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Avi Rubin - All Your Devices Can Be Hacked

Avi Rubin is Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Technical Director of the JHU Information Security Institute. Avi's primary research area is Computer Security, and his latest research focuses on security for electronic medical records. Avi is credited for bringing to light vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines. In 2006 he published a book on his experiences since this event.

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[TheLivirus]

Those hacker scientists sure have an awesome job!

[2minutestomammoth]

oh god... I hope nobody insane gets hold of this technology: making cars' brakes disengage?

do you think we could protect ourselves better by learning how hacking works?

[Ceausu Alexandru]

too fucking good the video

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[Firedrake1313]

What makes you think any of these attacks have not ALREADY BEEN USED to make an assassination look like an accident?

[shafiq92libra1]

Making assasinations look like accidents...

[Przemek P]

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[Salvatore Shiggerino]

Your mother is right, though her way of mitigating it might not be. Don't resign yourselves to a life under the terror of back doors and shoddy security. Check out the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project at fsf.org and gnu.org, respectively, and you can be free!

[Salvatore Shiggerino]

The key to security is free and open source software.

Proprietary developers use security by obscurity because it's cheap, but as this talk shows, reverse-engineering is easy. Free software does not keep secrets from anyone, so vulnerabilities can't be hidden and swept under the rug. And to remain secure, they must have features that actively works to keep the system secure, which is much harder to break than common security by obscurity.

[FoldedArt]

My latest IOS iPod disagrees.

[Matanumi]

not enitrely. "they" can hack a car radio separately.