Hacking Your Life: A Worst-Case Scenario for Implanted Medical Devices

'It couldn’t happen, but suppose it did? It’s straight out of an episode of Homeland; terrorists hack an implanted medical device and use it to administer a lethal shock to the patient carrying it inside them. As it turns out, hacking implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps is definitely possible, and device manufacturers have known about it for years.

It’s taken a small cadre of computer hackers to show the public what companies like Medtronic dismissed as very remote possibilities – large scale device tampering leading to thousands of injuries and deaths. Are they playing a dangerous game of chicken by dragging their feet all this time?'

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