@Norm: yeah the big scare was something like "I'm going to sit around in a coffee shop and wait for people with devices to pass by and turn off this old lady's pacemaker or this guy's insulin pump because I'm a dick lololol!!!"
Because people are dicks, and it's been shown to be possible IRL, and a lot more people have them than they do now because a lot of them are for use for people with severe mental illnesses and such rather than just heart problems.
Yes, it's scary enough that they're making firewalls for pacemakers now. I guess the thing is that I don't know how long it would take to brute force such a thing but for the purpose of the story it's going to be "long enough that you're better off trying to figure out the password, most people are hilariously bad at making them anyway so it shouldn't be too hard."
Here's
a site that can tell you how long it would take a PC to guess passwords. "1111" is an instant guess. :P
It doesn't seem so great because that was with a password that was made up of two first names so... I mean I'm guessing that is going by brute forcing and not using a dictionary of some sort.
Everything Is Online talks about "denial of coffee" attack... tee hee...
edited 31st Jan '14 7:09:51 AM by ohsointocats

i completely forgot about it, that's what happened
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI