Re: Could be the basis of a dectective story plot? Hacking the heart

On Mar 13, 3:10 pm, Lance <LanceG...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Boston Scientific said it used encryption in its defibrillators, and
doubted its devices could be hacked.

Those sound like potentially famous last words. Didn't somebody say
something like that about the DRM on DVDs?

It sounds like he perfect assassination device. Have any unpopular
leaders died because of the malfunction of medical equipment of this
sort yet?

It's easy enough to jam cellular telephones, so I'd have thought that
this shouldn't be orders of magnitude more difficult.


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