NSA Wants To Spy On Internet Of Things, Biomedical Devices
The Intercept reports NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett said the agency is "looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now" during an address at the Defense One Tech Summit in Washington, DC on Friday.
Ledgett said surveillance of biomedical devices like pacemakers could be “a niche kind of thing… a tool in the toolbox.” The deputy director explained that spying on the Internet of Things—the network of billions of connected physical objects—would be both a daunting security challenge and a signals intelligence windfall.
Ledgett said surveillance of biomedical devices like pacemakers could be “a niche kind of thing… a tool in the toolbox.” The deputy director explained that spying on the Internet of Things—the network of billions of connected physical objects—would be both a daunting security challenge and a signals intelligence windfall.