Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Hackers Killed a Simulated Human By Turning Off Its Pacemaker

We've wondered a couple of times what might happen if a hacker were to decide to compromise your pacemaker, your bionic arm, or maybe your brain implant. Thanks to some students at the University of South Alabama, we now have a reasonably good idea: You die!

There are shades of gray here, of course. But a group of undergraduate students at the university recently spent a few hours hacking a medical grade human simulation to see what, exactly would happen. The results were about what you'd expect .... http://motherboard.vice.com