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Yea, so my son hacked my pacemaker...
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[quote:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:MV80MDg4NjkzXzc0MTI0ODcxXzhFNTU1MDU3] Found this article on it. I never knew it was a thing. Sounds like it can be done with other medical devices also maybe? https://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-pacemakers-defibrillators-vulnerable-to-hackers [/quote]
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To set the background, I have a cardiomyopathy and my doc implanted a pacemaker/ defibrillator years ago due to the possibility of sudden cardiac failure. I am not dependent on it but it is there for emergency. I have had it long enough to have 3 replacements because the battery only last 4-5 years. Well the newest one is readable from home. They sent me home with an interrogation device that reads my data and sends it in nightly for analysis through wifi. Pretty cool huh?
My son works cyber security for a branch of the Gov. I won't go into details but he is an ethical hacker. They combat criminal hacking obviously. He had heard that it was possible to hack my new device so attempted it and succeeded. I got rid of the interrogation device they gave me and told them I will make appts for device interrogation when needed.
However anyone close enough to intercept my RF signal could do it through wifi. I dont pretend to know how this is done but my son told me they would really have to know the interrogation protocol of my device to adjust the settings, shock me or shut it off. He did get in far enough to read notes left on my diagnosis within the device. It was kind of cool but real creepy also. Still not sure how I feel about it.
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