On Wed, March 12, 2008 4:57 am, Gadi Evron wrote: > Almost a year ago I gave a talk at the CCC Camp in Germany I called > "hacking > the bionic man". It even made Wired, in some fashion. > http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/will-the-bionic.html > http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/events/2049.en.html > > In the talk, among other things such as the DNA and scripting languages, > medical doctors and reverse engineers... was about cybernetic hacking. > I gave some predictions, some for 2 years, others 40 years. Some again > were > pure science fiction. I was wrong on the 2 years, it's here. > > Today, this came up in the news (hat tip to Paul Ferguson on the funsec > mailing > list): > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/business/12heart-web.html?_r=1&oref=slogin > > " The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security > researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain > wireless > access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker. > > They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of > electricity > that would potentially be fatal . if the device had been in a person. In > this > case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory. " >
When I got my pacemaker I was working on some RF programming project. My doctor told me to find another job, he could sense my curiosity. Who could resist such fun?! Randy _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
