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March 12, 2008, 9:29 pm
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This is a pretty crazy story. You would think that a pacemaker is pretty un-hackable but that doesn't seem to be the case.

University of Washington specialists have hacked into a pacemaker and defibrillator with wireless capabilities, showing the Medtronic Maximo DR, can be hacked.

They said,

"Our investigation shows that an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (1) is potentially susceptible to malicious attacks that violate the privacy of patient information and medical telemetry, and (2) may experience malicious alteration to the integrity of information or state, including patient data and therapy settings for when and how shocks are administered," the paper states.

Something to think about.

These specialists think of everything possibly negative that they can. Dubious.