Medical Malware?

For some reason I couldn't see your picture, I bet is nice but try a diferent format.

Yahlasit

That's cheating! make no use of the vector sums and sail straight downwind.

Yahlasit

Hey, if nobody complains about the "eat according to your blood type" or " Is raw food heathy" posts, why should we do it about this one....

Wot, no chit chat on the medical blog?

Seems like a legit topic to me.

Well I will not continue immolating myself every time someone starts a thread related to health / medicine leading to nowhere :-). I learned my lesson, I will introduce urine-therapy to the CR4 community in the short time. As soon as I have gathered some more info from the Readers Digest and from "Buy it now" advertising before doing so. Best regards!

I initially thought this British guy was a crackpot, but I guess he's just overly-dramatic in making his point.

If you don't make the developers put security in the software, it won't happen. We see it with live Predator video in the wars, we see it with hacking into automobile control systems. In both cases, they didn't write any security into the interfaces because they weren't paid to. Medical implants WILL be hacked unless "we" secure them.

As a former Cardiac Pacemaker designer using the telemetry channel would be the easiest way to mess up a implantable device since many devices need to be programmed. One method is to send inappropriate RF commands. I will not say what kind of commands because I do not want someone trying it. There is only the pacing leads and it would be hard for malware to cause a problem there unless you knew about Cardiac Pacemakers and Cardiology. There is a way to cause total malfunction by designing a hardware/software virus into the actual chips. This is Evil Genius stuff.

As a former designer, you're one of the people who could "easily" kill someone this way. It would be no different than shooting the victim, and such activity would therefore be aggressively investigated and hard to conceal.

Any embedded systems engineer could do it as well, with just a little research. In my limited biomedical experience, access to the technical information for such devices is not controlled. It's just a matter of knowing where to look, right?

What little I know of hacker ethics indicates there's a big difference between disrupting big expensive operations or creating chaos for some victims, and actually killing them or making them very sick.