Weapon (still on drawboards) could hack into pacemakers!

[ovidsen]

Buried: in the New York Times - page 9

<(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.[br />


So far this device only range of an inch or two, although it shouldn't be surprising if that range increased to the point that you knock off that whiny cousin of yours (you know, the one with the pacemaker) and no one would ever know

But forget using it to 'terminate' the certfabiably crazy friends you have. Soneone else, some serious extremist, probably has other important public figures (as well as innocent civilians) in mind for this little cyber-murder device.

AIN'T SCIENCE GRAND????

[Jim Sagle]

1. What good is it now that Cheney's almost out of office?

;)

[backscatter712]

2. Cheney?

One can dream, can't he?