• foobar@lemmy.villa-straylight.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    In addition to fast and reliable authentication in an emergency, the other issue smart gun manufacturers need to pay attention to is how secure they are. For example, here is a video showing a security researcher thoroughly defeating a different type of smart gun with methods that allow unauthorized firing and even preventing the owner from firing.

    Still it’s interesting to see the tech develop from science fiction to something real.

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      1 year ago

      My understanding from the Forgotten Firearms video is that so far the system looks pretty mechanically secure. No silly magnet tricks or RFID stealing here. As for electronic security, neither him or me are an expert in that domain so the jury’s still out, but it’s encouraging to know that all biometric data (print, face scan) is encrypted and stored locally! In fact, it’s stored directly on the gun. How’s that for data security? You have to steal my gun out of my hand and then decrypt it to get my deets :3

      Fuck, decrypting a gun to steal biometric data is so cyberpunk.