Pacemakers prone to hacking

Posted by Paolo at 11:31, 18 Oct 2012

This is really rather disturbing.

Pacemaker hack can deliver deadly 830-volt jolt
Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators could be manipulated for an anonymous assassination

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9...

More here:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrim...

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Posted by Inannawhimsey on 23 Oct 2012 at about 19:58.

just you wait till 3-d printers become ubiquitous and there'll be stories of '1 billion dildos created at the Vatican' :3

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