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by hulitu 865 days ago
And all those TVs and fridges. And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware. /s

"Be afraid, be very afraid" Wednesday Addams - Addams Family Values

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> And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware.

Oh, the Convair B-36 Peacemaker definitely delivered malware.

Why would they be talking about a bomber airplane in this context?

They were clearly referring to the Colt Single Action Army revolver handgun.

Because I started thinking about which device (nuke vs. lead bullet) was more capable of delivering computational malware, as that would lend itself to more entertaining pun.

But I eventually decided that wasn't a fruitful vein of humour, so I pared it back to mere mention of the weapon.

I.e., even though I no longer jad a reason to prefer the bomber over the pistol for the pun, I stayed with it out of mere joke-planning inertia.

Why mention just one or the other in my original comment? Well, because, as you probably know, brevity is the soul of wit.

> 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...