Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Shutting down pacemakers

Schneier comments on this new research which has been on almost all the major news columns. Researchers have found a way to remotely access heart a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker and they were able to shutdown the pacemaker.
Schneier finally concludes thus -
The general moral here: more and more, computer technology is becoming intimately embedded into our lives. And with each new application comes new security risks. And we have to take those risks seriously.
The general moral here is like an inconvenient truth...

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