Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Hack?

[zappaDPJ]

I think there's a fair bit of presumption in this blog but I found it quite interesting nevertheless.

At the Black Hat security conference in August, Miller plans to expose and provide a fix for a new breed of attack on Apple laptops that takes advantage of a little-studied weak point in their security: the chips that control their batteries.

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/22/apple-laptops-vulnerable-to-hack-that-kills-or-corrupts-batteries/

[Rik]

It seems that, these days, the only safe computer is one not connected to the net.

[pctech]

And they want to connect your gas and electric meters to a network too.

[Technical Ben]

It seems that, these days, the only safe computer is one not connected to the net.

Remember the films and books that warned about "being online" and a "chip in everything". The two in tandem often had disastrous consequences. Are we living in the future or the fiction?

[Rik]

I'm definitely fictional, Ben.

[pctech]

Yep soon everything will have a chip that will nark on you 24/7