Not ~our~ sniper rifles.....
Posted on 07/30/2015 3:33:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a recent WIRED article, security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger tackled just that issue. The wife and husband duo purchased two $13,000 TrackingPoint rifles and spent the last year reverse engineering and hacking the rifles’ computers. The two plan to present their research at the Black Hat hacker conference in two weeks, according to the article.
TrackingPoint bills itself as a company comprised of “lifetime NRA members and engineers.” The products sold on its website seem standard enough when it comes to a gun company: bolt-action rifles, semi-automatic carbines, etc. The “5.56mm semi-auto,” basically a M16-type rifle, costs more that $7,000.
The rifles boast a setup that looks ripped right from the future. The company even mentions that some of the technology used in its rifles is also used to help fighter jets lock on to their targets.
Though advanced, the weapons are not secure. Using a WiFi connection, Sandvik and Auger figured out how to reprogram the rifles scope, disable the ballistic computer and even prevent the weapon from firing. In one test, the couple tricked the onboard computer into believing a .4-ounce bullet weighed 72 pounds, throwing the reticle, and subsequently the shot, off significantly.
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Not ~our~ sniper rifles.....
Chuckling imagining the loading table and exterior ballistics of a 504000 gr. (72 lbs, I think) bullet in 5.56. You’d have to remove the bolt carrier group so that you and a friend could chamber it, and it would stick way out of the muzzle. Bipod not included.
Make a very effective club, too, if necessary. Better yet, if you have the bayonet, that’s quite a pig-sticker!
You can’t hack a club.
GMTA
Why yes - in fact I do.
See! A firearm can go crazy all by it’s self. Just like a SUV.
We are doomed!
GD MSM, Shut them all down, burn the buildings and salt the land.
Yeah.. “hacking” a Mosin Nagant might be a little hard...
But then, even nice modern rifles have no hackable elements.
Unless you blow a few grand on useless crap I never head of...
That jealousy is just eating you up, man....
Can’t hack any of mine, but the 500 Smith is a favorite.
I shot a steel plate match a couple weeks ago (10 targets from 100 to 300 yards, 3 minute time limit... funky format). There was a guy there with an 1891. He hit 4, I hit 9.
With one of these...
Quigley beats Zaitsev... ;)
.45-110?
.45-70, I can only take so much.
I really should have bought a box in cosmoline years ago.
Nice!
That beats me blowing the head off a prairie dog at about fifty yards with a G98 (open sights).
There’s a .45-120, I’ve heard. Sounds unpleasant to shoot. I was out shooting some 300 meter one day and a guy turned up in the next bench with a Martini-Henry. I got to play with it. VERY fun shooter.
Well, that’s a right shiny thing.
Probably goes well with frock coats and powdered wigs.
They made some .50-140’s too.Navy Arms used to chamber their rolling block replica in that caliber,among others.The empty brass were over 3 inches long,paper patched bullets were up to 700 grains.
Firing 20 rounds rapid fire should give you a work-out similar to a couple rounds with an MMA fighter.
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