Submitted by mossadnik t3_y6dzmb in technology
metalmagician t1_it5kjgl wrote
Reply to comment by Affectionate-Cell614 in Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns by mossadnik
I know very little about modern exploits (take this with a pinch of salt), but I imagine one could exploit the bots like so:
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software updates will need to be periodically installed to the dog. I really really doubt they wouldn't update the software after release, given how novel the bots are
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the software updates will be authenticated somehow, to ensure that "only" the software vendor is the author of an update.
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if an attacker can successfully impersonate the software vendor, they could load malware onto the robot through the existing update process. This would be similar to the attack that came through SolarWinds
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