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by i336_ 3376 days ago
Apologies for my denseness, but how could buggy Bluetooth bring everything down?

I vaguely recall something about a faulty hospital device with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi being posted here a little while ago, but I'm not certain.

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Buggy means vulnerable in this context. A vulnerability in the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi stack is a good way for someone to compromise a machine remotely.

Once you compromise one machine, you're inside the firewall and in a much better position to exploit vulnerabilities in other machines in the network.