Re: hacking a pacemaker

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

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


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