Researchers Install Ransomware on Internet-Connected Wrench

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• ubluntu@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why put ransomeware on a wrench?

  For leverage

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  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pay us in 3 days or we’ll disable it. This is not a drill.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ba-dum tss!

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    LOL.

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• benwubbleyou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I am less concerned about the ransomware and more confused as to why there is a wrench that can connect to the internet. What use would that provide to the user that would improve it?

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quality assurance on production lines, so there is a record of what happened.

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A few ideas off the top of my head

    • asset tracking
    • location awareness
    • ability to send out mass specs to devices
    • device assignment
    • tracking working hours

    I’m not saying all of these are good ideas, or that they couldn’t just have a centralized hub that just pushes and pulls this information. That said, the website for them does list that they also have a camera for scanning barcodes. I could see having barcodes linked with a certain torque spec and that requiring a network connection if the information wasn’t hard coded. website

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The wrench is to tighten bolts to spec. You can program it to tighten different bolts to different tightness and that can be programmed online.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So, a torque wrench for someone too lazy to spin the handle to their required ft-lbs/in-lbs?

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the neat part, there isn’t. There is, however, significant incentive to the tool’s manufacturer. Who can, I’m sure, not only demand a subscription for continued use of the tools but also employ lucrative maintenance contracts and other sundry corporate nonsense. I can tell you from a brief stint in the industrial automation industry that the sale of the equipment is not the money maker; it’s the ongoing service contract on it.

    If these are meant to be used by hand I see no reason they can’t just be configured on the tool itself and not need a network connection. And if the point is plantwide automation, these sit directly in the bottom of the ugly trench between tasks that must be done by a human for whatever reason on one side, and just being done by a damn robot to begin with on the other.

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    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see no reason they can’t just be configured on the tool itself and not need a network connection.

      Say you've got a couple dozen of these wrenches and during retooling new specs come out. You can either pay a group of people to go around and upload all the new specs to the tool or push it from a central server to all the tools.

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• agitatedpotato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am not a fan of ‘the internet of things’

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  • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nearly all IoT items are developed for idiots, which is interesting because most of them are also made by idiots.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Iot wrenches are built for blue collar workers to ensure proper tooling of complex parts.

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    • superbirra@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      except in this case, where it looks like there are more than valid reasons

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This feels like one of those things that’ll go exactly opposite of what I expect. Ten years from now I’m be explaining to my grandkids how much harder live was before wrenches were Internet connected.

    I can’t imagine a single valid reason to have an Internet connected wrench. But life is weird, so I’m guessing I’ll keep one synced to my fax machine someday.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok cool

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• Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do we need this news posted 50 times over the course of a day?

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  • XTornado@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly is the first one I see with s picture showing the ransom request.

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• Aatube@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Repost...
  https://lemmy.ca/post/12959993

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