Hackers Killed a Simulated Human By Turning Off Its Pacemaker

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By Jason Koebler
Staff Writer
Motherboard.vice.com
Sept 7, 2015

We've wondered a couple of times what might happen if a hacker were to 
decide to compromise your pacemaker, your bionic arm, or maybe your brain 
implant. Thanks to some students at the University of South Alabama, we 
now have a reasonably good idea: You die!

There are shades of gray here, of course. But a group of undergraduate 
students at the university recently spent a few hours hacking a medical 
grade human simulation to see what, exactly would happen. The results were 
about what you'd expect.

iStan, the guy you see above, is "the most advanced wireless patient 
simulator on the market, with internal robotics that mimic human 
cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems," according to its 
manufacturer, CAE Healthcare. iStan costs about $100,000 and is regularly 
used by hospitals to teach medical school students how to perform 
procedures without murdering people.

"They sweat, they cry, they talk," Mike Jacobs, director of the 
simulations program at University of South Alabama, told me. "It responds 
to 300 different types of simulated medications and procedures, and the 
physiological response is identical to that of a human."

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