Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers 167
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from the blackest-of-black-hats dept.
from the blackest-of-black-hats dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control have now developed a scheme for protecting implantable medical devices against wireless attacks. The approach relies on using ultrasound waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it." I had no idea that things have gotten so bad that hearts are being hacked.
Hacking hearts (Score:5, Funny)
If I could hack her heart, she'd really love me...
No Locked Hardware! (Score:4, Funny)
I can see it now... (Score:5, Funny)
Does someone have him for a class. (Score:2, Funny)
The potential risks of enabling radio communication in implantable medical devices were first highlighted by Kevin Fu, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,...
It must have been rough in college for him.
CS Professor: Now when you call function Foo.
Fu: What professor?
Um, nothing. Back to Foo.
Sir?
Nothing. Anyway the function, let's call it, "Bar" instead. Now when you call "Bar"
John Barr, another student: "What sir?
Professor: Is there anyone named ABC?! Good! Now when you call function ABC ...
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:4, Funny)
That's not love, it's angina.
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:4, Funny)
You keep your filthy talk to yourself, mister!
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No Locked Hardware! (Score:1, Funny)
No only should it be open, but there should be an app store for the pace maker. Think of all the exciting heart rhythms you could purchase.
Maybe they could integrate it to my media pc and home entertainment center!
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:5, Funny)
You keep your filthy talk to yourself, mister!
Hey, now, that's unfair. I know Angina, she's a talented thespian with a very fine epidermis.
Winning the hearts and minds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hearts Being Hacked (Score:3, Funny)
the threats have been demonstrated in the lab by a fella named Kevin Fu
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Re:Hacking hearts (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, now, that's unfair. I know Angina, she's a talented thespian with a very fine epidermis.
What does her sexual orientation have to do with anything? You homophobic or something?
Re:I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
Most mammals have an inverse relationship between rate and lifetime. (And barring the use of medicine, probably humans too.) Almost as if there were a limited number of beats allocated...
And then you die from a null pointer exception?
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:4, Funny)
I think I've seen her.. there's a vas deferens between her left and right legs, right?
63 comments and still.. (Score:5, Funny)
This gives a whole new meaning to heart attack.
Someone had to say it.
Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
I could if I tried
Honey please forget my wireless
Baby I'm not that kind
Don't go hacking my heart
You take the beat out of me
Honey when you knocked on my port
My heart gave you my key
Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your pawn
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
You stopped my heart
You stopped my heart
So don't go hacking my heart
I won't go hacking your heart
Don't go hacking my heart
On a slighly different note. I wonder if Captain Crunch could freak an ear implant?
Re:Hacking hearts (Score:4, Funny)
Can we mention cunning linguist in there somewhere?
I don't need to stoop that low, as I am a master debater.
Re:No Locked Hardware! (Score:2, Funny)