Excuse Me While I Turn Off Your Pacemaker
August 13th, 2008
You gotta be a serious asshole when you dedicate your time to figuring out how to disable pacemakers witha remote control.
The Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the unwashed masses of hackers. It always has its share of unusual hacks. The oddest so far is a collaborative academic effort where medical device security researchers have figured out how to turn off someone’s pacemaker via remote control.
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