[nycbug-talk] interesting read (old pacemaker thread)

Isaac Levy ike at blackskyresearch.net
Mon Aug 29 09:08:00 EDT 2011


Hi All,

Dragging open a feisty 6 year old thread, who remembers "the pacemaker scenario":

> On Sat, 21 May 2005 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>> Let's keep in mind that the trustworthiness of a life-critical
>>> application has everything to do with how that program was written

http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2005-May/005497.html


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From BlackHat this summer:

"Earlier this month, Jay Radcliffe, a computer security professional who is also diabetic, showed how an attacker could remotely control insulin pumps to deliver too much or too little insulin to the individual wearing the device."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/medical-device-security/


Rocket-
.ike





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