Why We Should Worry About Hackable Hearts

Dermot7 · Oct 10, 2015

Sometimes, hackers make the worst patients.

A few years ago, when Marie Moe got her pacemaker, she didn’t worry too much about the particular model her doctors chose. After all, she needed it to survive, and trusted their judgement.

But given that Moe is a security researcher and a hacker, she got curious. She looked up the pacemaker’s manual and found that the device she had inside her body had wireless capabilities, something that “scares” her “a bit.”

“That’s something that I’m very worried about,” Moe, who is in her thirties, told Motherboard in a phone interview, “because I know a lot about wireless security, and I know there are a lot of things that can go wrong.”
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subhrobhandari · Oct 12, 2015

Really interesting article, thanks for posting it. Anyone knows how much access do wireless pacemakers allow?

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