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UV Tattoos as Possible Password Storage for Implantable Devices

Posted April 16, 2010 2:39 PM

From Medgadget:

In the beginning of the month New England Journal of Medicine published an article detailing the security risk of wireless controlled implantable devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators. Researchers at Microsoft have proposed a possible solution that would allow doctors to still access the device if needed while the patient is unconscious: tattoo the password onto the patient with ultraviolet reactive ink.

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04/16/2010 10:35 PM

...who thought of that? Nazi doctor Mengale?

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Re: UV Tattoos as Possible Password Storage for Implantable Devices

04/17/2010 3:32 PM

What will happen in six months when the cyber police insist that a new random password must be entered?

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