A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks
By BARNABY J. FEDER" The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal . if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory. "
oh god.......
ReplyDeleteLike that episode of the Simpsons when all technology goes insane and attacks the people!!
No, this is worse - it's people attacking people through technolgy!
ReplyDeleteImagine if someone could hack into your vibrator and give you an electric shock...
It's like in Lost, when Ben makes Sayer think he's fitted a pacemaker which will kill him if his bp gets too high. So he can't get stressed or erect. That was actually a really funny episode now that I think about it :)
That is very scary isn't it.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have to admit, I'd be scareder if I had a pacemaker...
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