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

[fire crow]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Isaac (.ike) Levy
<ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> 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
>
>
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Hi All,
that's crazy, slightly related my brother's friend writes code for
traffic lights in pheonix, and he says that several us cities have
implemented a blue tooth scanning system to store route data.

http://www.itsinternational.com/categories/networking-communication-systems/news/combining-bluetooth-and-wi-fi-to-optimise-traffic-signals/

~fire
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