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

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

Hi All,

Can't help myself but revive a thread which is now 11 years old,

"The NSA wants to monitor pacemakers and other medical devices"
http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/6/11/11910050/the-nsa-wants-to-monitor-pacemakers-and-other-medical-devices

> On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Isaac Levy wrote:
> 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


> On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
> http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2013-March/014864.html


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And some older bits linked from that article,

"Yes, You Can Hack A Pacemaker (And Other Medical Devices Too)"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/12/06/yes-you-can-hack-a-pacemaker-and-other-medical-devices-too/

"Hackers Killed a Simulated Human By Turning Off Its Pacemaker"
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-killed-a-simulated-human-by-turning-off-its-pacemaker

Best,
.ike