PeterH Posted June 14, 2011 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 196 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/22/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted June 14, 2011 How to keep hackers away from your pacemaker by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore With millions of implantable medical devices in the U.S. alone, and some 300,000 more people receiving them worldwide every year, the need to protect these wireless devices from being hacked is increasingly urgent. Wearers might soon be better protected, thanks to new work out of MIT and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, so long as they don't mind walking around in invisible shields. The system the research team will be proposing at the Association for Computing Machinery's Sigcomm conference in Toronto this August uses a jamming transmitter small enough to be worn as a watch or necklace. The device would essentially be authorized to access the implant and send encrypted instructions to the transmitter (the team calls this the "shield"), which would in turn decode the encryption and relay the instructions to the implant. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20071117-247/how-to-keep-hackers-away-from-your-pacemaker/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterH Posted June 14, 2011 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 196 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/22/2011 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 What is this world coming too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted June 15, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 30 Topic Count: 600 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,384 Content Per Day: 7.55 Reputation: 28,136 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted June 15, 2011 I don't know, but I'm beginning to think that Stoning is not so much harsh and unusual punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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