Pacemakers to get firewalls?
by The Uni-Hacker on Aug.22, 2008, under IT, Security
Doctors, Patients, and manufacturers of pacemakers are all to concerned that hackers could tamper with someone’s much needed pacemaker. Today’s pacemakers allow doctors to remotely make changes to the pacemaker configurations, and patients feel they are at risk. Well, they are right, if doctors can access the pacemakers remotely, so can the hackers. Remote access to pacemakers is a BAD, and I say again, a BAD idea.
Nothing will keep hackers out, and I do mean nothing. Whether hackers remotely hack it, or whether the mob breaks into the doctors house and forces the doctor at gun point to remote access them, someone will find a way.
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