Half a million pacemakers recalled due to hacking risk.

[Lily]

[QUOTE=Aetna;52636837]Preeeettty sure there's a shitload of evidence pointing to him having died of a drug overdose after years of use, his brains weren't blown out. The particular cocktail of drugs he was on isn't a very surprising mix, either.[/QUOTE]

Yeah he just knocked himself out with benadryl and xanax, speedballed into overdose and then mucked with his own coroners report and scared anyone who knew him out of talking about it. Happens all the time.

[editline]2nd September 2017[/editline]

It looks far less suspicious if you read about it now, as the cause of death magically surfaced a year later after everyone forgot about it. At the time when that happened [i]nothing[/i] about it added up.

[Xyrofen]

I'm interested to know how these are hacked. I work for a competitor of this company and the ones we produce are only able to be reprogrammed in any way with a physical implement while you're with a doctor.

[kaze4159]

[QUOTE=Xyrofen;52638993]I'm interested to know how these are hacked. I work for a competitor of this company and the ones we produce are only able to be reprogrammed in any way with a physical implement while you're with a doctor.[/QUOTE]

Presumably that was their rationale too, "you need a specific piece of hardware to reprogram this, only we can do it", until someone else figured out how to build their own :v:
The firmware update adds encryption, which implies they had literally nothing but obscurity protecting them

[Xyrofen]

[QUOTE=kaze4159;52639865]Presumably that was their rationale too, "you need a specific piece of hardware to reprogram this, only we can do it", until someone else figured out how to build their own :v:
The firmware update adds encryption, which implies they had literally nothing but obscurity protecting them[/QUOTE]

Well, yes, but you'd still need to somehow have the patient hold still so the implement could be placed on their chest and engage the circuit, as is the case with what I help build. That's why I'm so interested as to the [I]how[/I] in the case of St. Jude Medical.