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First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Goes Live
The Register is reporting that a New York woman has become the first person to have her pacemaker wirelessly connected to the internet for full-time monitoring. "The device contains a radio transmitter which connects to receiving equipment in New Yorker Carol Kasyjanski's home, using a very low-power signal around 400MHz, to report on the condition of her heart. Any problems are instantly reported to the doctor, and regular checkups can be done by remotely interrogating the home-based equipment — the pacemaker itself doesn't have an IP address, fun as that would be."
I wonder what a DDoS would do to it ...
Otherwise that lady is going to be in for quite the surprise when the pacemaker starts looking at youporn.
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Does it run Linux?
If the patent is rapidly losing consciousness
I wonder if that was intentional or not?
Now that Slashdot knows about it, it's only a matter of time before someone starts trying to hack these things. Countdown: Someone here installs Linux and runs a NES emulator on his own pacemaker in 3....2....
On a side note, the pacemaker owner was recomended not to play multimedia content from youtube in his equipment so the battery lasts longer.
ping pacemaker
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3609ms
meaning she is gone...
Why not just tap it into Twitter and utilize an existing system that's stable, easily accessible, and highly availabile? Not to mention you could keep your friends in the loop!
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.
...then the next step is to see what a little overclocking would do to it...
God forbid she downloads copyrighted material and the RIAA have her internet connection terminated...
Recipient of said device breathes a sigh of relief when he discovers his heart won't be slashdotted.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Denial of Systolic attack?
Thousands of 4channers suddenly stop what they were doing and in unison spit out, 'WHAT just got connected to the Internet?' as smiles spreads across their faces. ... maybe this isn't such a good idea...
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serving as a timing belt.
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.... Aaargghh
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... I think the server crashed, just dead links.
Doesn't matter just try out some of the 2^32 minus reserved addresses
all /.ers Christian Name starting with an "A" take the 0.5*2^30 upper addresses and ...
Thank good they haven't postet the IP on /.
I suppose you don't even need a computer network of brainless bots to DDOS a computer,
slashdot + us the faster than light clicking slashdot-crauts would fullfill the task, twice as good as any botnet can do,
btw. "Police: Man blamed child porn on cat"
haha next time he can blame his hacked pacemaker for doing so, it will also be very complicated to confiscate this evidence.
and here it comes the DomainName for the Pacemaker
http://pacemaker.chicagohope.md/
Nothing wins a lot of reads like a headline making some technical advancement sound really dumb. Funny how so many readers of a high-tech news source treat high-tech advancements like Luddites.
have you ever read /. before? that's pretty much what we do here. that and welcoming various overlords.
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Correlation does not imply causation. If it did you'd be an inbred racist hick who jumps to conclusions about statistics when they know nothing about how statistical analysis works.
oh wait.. never mind.
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sysadmin dad: son, your grandmother is getting old and she wont be around much longer. you should cherish the times you have with her
son: how do you know?
sysadmin dad: i caught her throwing warnings to syslog when i was checking logwatches for the toilet and the fridge today. plus her cacti trend for ping time and load looks horrible.
son: will grandma go to heaven?
sysadmin dad: depends, I didnt an asset tag on her so chances are the property disposal authorization wont go through and she'll just sit on the shipping receiving dock forever.
son: so shes going to be a ghost??
sysadmin dad: worse, people dont leave empties on you when your a ghost.
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