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Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack
An anonymous reader writes "According to the Washington Post, 'Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he once feared that terrorists could use the electrical device that had been implanted near his heart to kill him and had his doctor disable its wireless function. Cheney has a history of heart trouble, suffering the first of five heart attacks at age 37. ... In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, Cheney says doctors replaced an implanted defibrillator near his heart in 2007. The device can detect irregular heartbeats and control them with electrical jolts. Cheney says that he and his doctor, cardiologist Jonathan Reiner, turned off the device's wireless function in case a terrorist tried to send his heart a fatal shock.' More at CBS News."
How can anyone who kills Dick Cheney be a terrorist?
Frankly, anyone who understands how insecure wireless is should be terrified of having a built in personal "off switch." I would do the same thing, and so would a lot of slashdot.
Breaking News : Dick Cheney has a heart !
Frankly, anyone who understands how fragile the human body is should be terrified of walking outdoors, etc.
Murders don't happen all the time simply because most people aren't psychopathic cunts. But, in Cheney's case, it takes one to know one.
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Yeah, I think we have a pretty clear case of projection here. If a terrorist got close enough to him to hack his pacemaker, why not just stab him?
Since, clearly, he does not have a heart.
Hmm.. I wonder if this wasn't the inspiration of the previous season's NCIS episode "Need to Know" where the victim was killed in exactly that manner.
Okay, given Cheney's historical level of paranoia (this is nothing compared to some of his hijinks as SECNAV), I can TOTALLY see Cheney not understanding something and therefore assuming it's going to be used by people out to get him. Both "not understanding something" and "worried about trivial crap" are WELL within Cheney's persona. Having said that, whose wise idea was it to make a defibrilator that can be remotely accessed wirelessly in the first place? If nerd history has taught us anything, it's vulnerable shit eventually gets broken into, and wireless protocols are by definition vulnerable.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
...most people aren't psychopathic cunts. But, in Cheney's case, it takes one to know one.
But you claim to recognize Dick Cheney as one. Apparently that means you are a ....
By attacking America on 9/11, Al Qaeda hoped to lure America into a foolish overreaction that would alienate the West from the Islamic world, weaken America's will, and help spread Al Qaeda's message of extremism and violence. Few people helped them achieve these goals more than Dick Cheney did. So why would they want to kill him?
My sis has an implanted defibrillator. It's a weird experience to be sitting in a doctors office when a technician comes in with a machine to test the installation.
"I just need to turn up your blood pressure and heart rate for a minute" says the tech, as casually as ordering a cup of coffee.
A couple of button presses later, the look of shock on my sister's face as she realized that she was not, in a very literal sense, in control of her own heart is something I'll never forget.
She needs her implanted defibrillator but, holy shit, the power she must cede to Miss Random Device Technician by having it in her body is scary as all hell.
He keeps it in a jar on his desk.
Frankly, anyone who understands how insecure wireless is should be terrified of having a built in personal "off switch." I would do the same thing, and so would a lot of slashdot.
I thought there was a story or two right here within the past year about this very vulnerability.
Time Bomber the Book coming soon.
How close would a terrorist have to be? I mean antennas are great and you can hide them in other devices or out in the open and relay your cracking from a distance. That's the advantage of wireless isn't it.
Imagine a scenario where a terrorist gets a hotel room in the same hotel he is staying at. Would the security detail turn off the house WIFI so I couldn't access his pace maker from the hotel's WIFI in my room or the lobby or something? What if he visits a company that has wifi and I have a remote connection into the building?
perhaps we just aren't there yet, perhaps we already are.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/12/06/yes-you-can-hack-a-pacemaker-and-other-medical-devices-too/
Which 'they'?
Cheney has managed to make quite a number of enemies over the years. No all of them live in the Middle East.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
It turns out he is doing much better. It turns out that all he needed was the blood of a young boy. I believe the donor was Iraqi. Some weird O-Negative glycoprotein subtype.
PS This is a joke. Because I know THEY are watching.
I work in this field. Three or four years ago when all the big device companies launched their remote interrogation capabilities, I asked around at the biggest industry conference (HRS) about device security. The answer (when it wasn't "security?") was "oh, you'd need a programmer" (the laptop-like devices used to interrogate implanted defibrillators and pacemakers). Walk down the right hall in a hospital with scrubs or a white coat on and grab one and you're set, not to mention reverse engineering. I hope they're improving the security with this kind of publicity.
Ah, but I'm a non-practising psychopathic cunt.
By attacking America on 9/11, Al Qaeda hoped to lure America into a foolish overreaction that would alienate the West from the Islamic world, weaken America's will, and help spread Al Qaeda's message of extremism and violence.
Good thing we're too smart to fall for that.
Correct. Pacemakers don't use wireless as in WiFi or Bluetooth. They use near field communications. It'd require a humongous coil to access it from more than a few inches.
Because it looks a lot more suspicious to drive a knife into someone's heart, than to press a button on your bluetooth headset which launches the attack code on your phone...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Killing a politician with subtle electronic sabotage is not appealing to terrorists. It is not dramatic. It is quiet. Terrorists would rather blow a city block with TNT to kill a politician. Killing somebody using defibrillator suits spies or other government agents.
The same reason all acknowledged attack vectors are left open: Convenience and carelessness.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
IIRC the pacemakers have to be put in wireless configuration mode with a magnet placed in a specific spot on the pacemaker, so to hack one wirelessly would require physical access to him. It's not WIFI it's just wireless to prevent having to open him up to access the pacemaker, it still requires physical access.
Disabling wifi doesn't remove the danger. Directed energy weapons, like RF guns, can still target and disrupt the device in various ways since it contains electronics.
Higher Logics: where programming meets science.
It's going to get worse too. I think the movie In Time gives a good idea of what would happen if life extension became trivially cheap and easy for anyone to have. "Life credits" would have to be used to cap-and-trade lifespans, and then guess what...
I hope all the companies working on life extension know what they're playing with.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Cheyney obviously watches Homeland, in which the Vice President is killed by remotely acessing his pacemaker.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
The term you're looking for is "lapsed"
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Based on his history it seems more likely that he was worried that the "organs of state security," or even some of his corporate sponsors, might do this to him, to make sure that various secrets stayed, well, secret.
No. As a previous poster mentioned, the device has to be in very close proximity initially. However, in most ICD models once the heart device has been paired with whatever device is on the outside, communication can happen over a bit longer distances ( a few meters or so). Remember that these devices have batteries - they don't need coils. I have one, and it communicates with a receiver in my home when I'm around, allowing my cardiologist to be alerted if something odd happens with my heart rythm.
He obviously isn't an amateur. I think in his case the proper term would be "prolapsed". Oddly appropriate in his case.
It's a common nickname for "Richard", and predates the slang by quite a bit. In fact, the whole reason "dick" is used to refer to a boy-part is because it is such a common and well-established boy-name. The names "Willie" and "Fanny" came to be used for "penis" and "vagina" for the exact same reason (although the latter is used slightly differently in the US).
I have a pacemaker/defibrillator, and I really couldn't give a shit. Besides, my tech says that my model requires a magnetic field in order to pull a magnet inside the device and make a contact so that the wifi is turned on. Without someone sticking that round thing on my chest, no one can talk to the machine. Honestly if strange people go around putting heavy chunks of metal on my chest without my permission I think wifi is the least of my worries.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Probably someone who thought that sticking a cable through your chest to change the things configuration is an even worse idea.
Empathy motherfucker; find some.
Any Cockney will tell you a "Richard" is something else entirely.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
While I know this is far fetched I still hold out hope some day Cheney and friends will held to account for lying to his own people and the world to start a war and war crimes.
Perhaps by some unexpected political change or a fateful visit to the wrong country where that government has the balls to follow thru on perusing charges.
It also has to be meaningful if Cheney and pals only live for a year in jail and then die of old age it is far from an ideal situation.
Not in this case.
My sister has an implanted cardiac defibrillator that also functions as a pacemaker. It was my understanding that all implanted defibrillators have this functionality.
Of course, I could be completely wrong about that. The defibrillator she has replaced a previous pacemaker that was just a pacemaker. We were not informed if there was actually such a thing as a defibrillator that was just a defibrillator because such a device would not have been appropriate for her. For that reason, I may have the wrong impression.
Suffice it to say, she has a combo device that is always referred to by medical professionals as an "ICD" without mentioning that it also functions as a pacemaker. I assume they all do. If not, I'm sure someone on here more knowledgable than me will correct me.
if his pacemaker is anything like the one my fried has, you basically have to touch his chest with another gizmo to see it.
so wireless in the sense that there are no wires sticking out of his nipple... not AQ can kill him from an internet cafe in Pakistan.
what's Cheney's IP? /duh.
One of my favorite headlines fromThe Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-heart-device-allows-cheney-to-experience-love,2294/
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
I don't think it's specific to cockney, just generic rhyming slang in England. It's all gone 'Pete Tong', I'm going for a 'Ruby {Murray}' type thing.
I wonder if the wireless thing ever turned on properly after he woke up?
Classic case of the dumbasses we put in charge who go sticking their fingers in things they know absolutely nothing about. Cheney strikes me as a prepper and we need to keep dipshits like that out of office.
These devices have to be "woken up" with a sensor placed on the chest. Then it'll communicate with the interrogation equipment which can induces shocks via a defribillation test. The range is limited to about 15 feet. Despite the wireless option being turned off, anyone with the device used to interrogate can still induce a shock with the chest sensor.
Still, a shock could still be induced without the tech by causing artifact in the leads. Inappropriate shocks have been reported in people operating heavy equipment like jackhammers and chainsaws. So shake the shit out of him and he may get an inappropriate shock. Worst that would happen there is induction of ventricular fibrillation which would only cause an appropriate shock.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
no skin off his penis. he's rich, bitch! got paid more money from his oil company job while being veep than he was paid to be vice president. and republicans in congress doubled his salary.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
That they were actually concerned about this tells you everything you need to know about Dick and American politics.
They know they are criminals so they live in fear.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Al Qaida started the war. They bombed two US embassies in Africa, killing hundreds and wounding a thousand. They bombed the US Navy destroyer the USS Cole, nearly sinking it. They attacked on 9/11 and kill 3,000. Can we stop forgetting that, mm kay?
You can disagree with Cheney's politics- I certainly do.
But this is entirely reasonable for him to take. It prevents assassination and blackmail attempts being launched in a potentially trivial fashion. As was said above, why would you want an off switch? And if you or I can personally justify it, we'd probably not be able to as vice president.
What's a "Richard" in Cockney slang?
They'd NEVER attack Cheney!
Keeping him alive at all costs, would be the best thing for "Terrorists", ever. Kill the Cheney's in this world, and these "terrorists" have no cause for which to exist.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I think the west was already alienated from the islamic world long before that. I mean look at the differences in customs there that we look at as barbaric, such as female circumcision and honor killings. Likewise, they view it as barbaric that we charge interest on loans and allow homosexuals to live (in fact these were two things Osama Bin Laden said he wanted to see end in America.)
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This was a technique used by fictional assassin John Rain in Barry Eisler's "Rain Fall".
The assassin got right up to his victim in the subway and placed a device that would trigger the pacemaker on a delay.
There is no "Off Switch". If there was there would be no Dick Cheny.
Maybe West should be alienated from the Islamic world. The status quo seemed to be that as the rest of the world was progressing towards democratic governments, the Middle East (apart from Israel) would be the sole remaining black hole for democracy and human rights, run by a bunch of dictators like Saddam, Assad, Gaddafi, Mubarak etc, not to mention Taliban. Islamic world sucks in every department and maybe it's in our interest not to let it go on like that for the sake of few more years of peace.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
So, how secure is the pairing? Bluetooth v2.1?
Otherwise, someone could perhaps attack the pacemaker by spoofing an auth'd device.
Also, a few meters is still a decent range, esp for a small concealed device that could lie in wait, and, surely that could be increased w/ more power...
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
A terrorist? Someone who (tried to) kill Cheney would be a hero like Claus von Stauffenberg who tried to kill Hitler.
"Murders don't happen all the time simply because most people aren't psychopathic cunts. But, in Cheney's case, it takes one to know one."
Hahaha! I bet a lot of people are saying, "Why didn't I think of that?"
The status quo seemed to be that as the rest of the world was progressing towards democratic governments, the Middle East (apart from Israel) would be the sole remaining black hole for democracy and human rights
If you truly believe that you reveal complete arrogance about the situation in the Middle East. First of all, Israel is conducting large scale state terrorism basically since it exists. Second, some of the worst dictators in the Middle East have been explicitly supported by the US government, some of them even rose to power with direct support by the CIA, and some of them are still being massively supported by the US. Take a look at Saudi Arabia. What currently happens in Egypt is yet another repetition of the same old story as well: The US is actively backing a "benevolent" military dictatorship by overthrowing a democratically elected government.
I have no sympathy for regligious fundamentalism of any kind, but it really doesn't take rocket science to realize what is going on and why these terrorist movements could arise in the first place. Hint: They have not much to do with religion at all, the latter is nothing more than a recruiting tool for them.
Also, it would perhaps also be a good idea to get a clue at the size the "islamic world" you're talking about, because you talk an awful lot as if it was confined to the Middle East.
In summary, get a fucking idea what your talking about.
I mean look at the differences in customs there that we look at as barbaric, such as female circumcision and honor killings.
(emphasis added)
Anyone who condones chopping off (parts of) childrens penises I find barbaric, sadistic and and a bit perverse.
I guess we too have alienated from "the west" long ago.
Anyone who offed Dick Cheney would be a hero of democracy and humanity, not a "terrorist"!
Where was this so-called attack by al Qaeda ever decided in a court of law, may one inquire?
Hold on a second, Morty Zuckerman's US NEWS and World Report ran a cover touting Dick(head) Cheney as a "tough guy".
Are you doubting Morty Zuckerman? He is on the Trilateral Commission, after all......
I wasn't aware he even had a heart. I heard it had been replaced with a ten pound hammer.
You really dropped the ball, Anonymous.
A possible movie concept, and game:
The transmitter was put back in the pace maker. It is tuned so that every time one passes by a Red Box the pace maker starts playing "Poker Face", acustic version, by Lady Gaga; downloaded from The Pirate Bay.
This turns out to be the reason why Snowden left the NSA, which is verifiable on WikiLeaks.
First of all, Israel is conducting large scale state terrorism basically since it exists.
Israel was granted its existence by the UN in 1947. The problem with Middle East is that Arabs have never been able to accept that because they don't like Jews. If Israeli Jews were Muslim, the problem wouldn't exist, simple as that. The expansion of Israel's territory since then came in my view in a fair way, as they won one after another defensive war against attacks by vastly superior Arab forces.
Second, some of the worst dictators in the Middle East have been explicitly supported by the US government
So what. It was right to support them when it suited our interest and there was a greater danger to us and to the word to worry about (USSR - the most evil empire in the 20th century). As far as I'm concerned, dictators are a fair game to support or to depose according to our interests and once we defeated the Soviet Union, we are now knocking them out one by one. Saudi royal family has a special deal with the US that temporarily keeps them in power because of oil but as soon as that reason is behind us they will be next in line.
Also, it would perhaps also be a good idea to get a clue at the size the "islamic world" you're talking about, because you talk an awful lot as if it was confined to the Middle East.
And it would be a good idea for you to get some perspective of what a total failure Islamic civilization has been. There is no progress at all of any kind, technological, political or otherwise that happened in any Muslim country in hundreds of years. 2 Nobel Prizes in science by Muslims compared to over 100 by Jews! The best university in any Islamic country (in Turkey, among the least Islamic of the Muslim countries) is not even in the top 200 in the world. Democracy has either failed or been under attack by Islamists in just about every Muslim country. Every border where Islamic civilization meets a non-Islamic one there is trouble, just look at the world map. Israel has shown how to turn a backward desert wasteland into an advanced 1st world country in less than 50 years. Why can't any Muslim country do the same? I think it is obvious to anyone but Western cultural relativists that the reason is Islam.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Richard the Third = Turd (Shit)
In the article, the doctor said it could happen from a nearby hotel room, for example.
Someone heard about this, because they did exactly this thing on Homeland last year, killed the VP by wirelessly hacking his pacemaker.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
What's next, admission that Barnaby Jack was classified as a foreign terrorist and assassinated?
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised since the term hacking is now becoming synonymous with terrorism.
That this was modded up boggles the mind. Maybe because the terrorist can walk past him with the signal being sent from a cellphone in his pocket? Maybe the terrorist wouldn't send a "fatal shock" but to shut the pacemaker down or change it so it doesn't instakill. Depending on the patient, a pacemaker isn't needed for every minute of the day. Cheney may not recognize there is a problem for days or weeks. Even if he died nearly instantly it could take months to prove it was an intentional failure, the guy has had 5 heart attacks already. The individual terrorist could get away and a terrorist group could claim credit for attack. Do you think all terrorists want to be martyrs?
This. Sounds like Dick Cheney has a brain. It's weird how non-techie people are extremely into lots of things they consider 'computer stuff', while the majority of geeks stay well away from them because they don't think it's worth the trade off e.g. facebook
Nor is assassination. Glad to see /. use the right word. Are we ever going to hear a politician speak intelligently?
Sources report that the IP address was 666.666.666.666.
Oooh! Like Johnson.
But couldn't someone from a distance have used a super strong magnet to turn the radio on and then from a distance transmit the "off" signal?
I'm not talking about someone doing this from another country, but perhaps near enough where Cheney would've have been.
It seems like there was enough of a possible threat that he, and his doctors, felt the need to do this.
I gotta wonder what kind of shit Pope Jon Paul II was up to...
You have to guess that Dick Cheney is American? That must be some rock you've been hiding under.
You are mixing things up, and you are incorrect. The plan was to take the Caucasus oil fields [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus], not Ural. There was no way Germans could take Ural in 1943, and there was no oil there anyway.
The real story is that Hitler needed to take Caucasus oil to keep his war machine running. He had to take Stalingrad to keep his flanks safe. Look at the map [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Eastern_Front_1942-05_to_1942-11.png]. It wasn't a detour, Hitler had to take Stalingrad to keep the front stable, and he failed. He failed due to his underestimation of Russian heroism and overestimation of Wehrmacht.
Terrorists obviously know the best way to terrorize Americans is to keep people like Cheney alive.
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I think you're giving too much credit to the terrorists here. 9/11 was just one of many attempts at flying planes into buildings, and the only one that worked. There was no long-con involved. They weren't thinking 3 steps ahead while anticipating our next moves. They just wanted to bring down one of the symbols of American capitalism with the added benefit of killing as many people as possible.
We screwed up after the fact, but the mistake was ours alone. Not some terrorist mastermind predicting the future.
female circumcision
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is not an Islamic custom. It is an African custom. In the areas where it occurs, it is practiced by both muslims and non-muslims, and was widely practiced before the Islamic era. Most muslims live in Asia, not Africa, and do not practice FGM. The practice is not mentioned in either the Bible or the Koran, nearly all Islamic scholars agree that there is nothing "Islamic" about it, and it is illegal in most Islamic countries.
How close? About three metres with the medical equipment, more I suppose if they have a large antenna, but they'd have to have cracked whatever RSA was putting on those things since the 1990s first.
With respect to Forbes it's not their usual line of reporting so I'm expecting a junk "flying cars" article.
That's all assuming that the wireless in the pacemaker has been left on, which of course uses a lot of battery power so is unlikely - see other posts about how it is turned on and off.
I expect Cheney has misunderstood the situation and didn't know that the wireless connection gets turned off while he's in the doctors office.
I met someone from RSA that was working on encryption for them in the 1990s. So I'd say at least one brand is fairly secure if not all.
That's not just "strong", that's inside an MRI machine strong.
It's not really fair to dump those things on a religion just as it's not fair to dump Jim Jones, Charlie Manson and Jimmy Swaggart on our own. Those things are done in the name of a religion while really it's about perverted shits that like women to have mutilated genitals or generally evil bastards looking for an excuse to kill their ex. It's barbarism with the excuse of religion but the barbarism is not in all places where that religion is practised.
Killing Dick Cheney would be a murder, not terrorism. Terrorism is supposed to scare people, and I see nothing scaring with the idea Dick Cheney could be killed with a "weapon" that would not affect me.
Terrorists aren't that subtle. They like to be able to take credit for what they have done. If Cheney dies of a heart attack, it's just a heart attack, not an attack. No terror. The person terrorizing Cheney was Cheney, pure and simple.
Probably the same one that decided the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Prior to the 9/11 attacks Bin Laden was the head of the al Qaida state within a state in the very model of Islamic state, Taliban run Afghanistan, that he hoped to see spread around the world. His terrorist training camps were turning out thousands of trained terrorists per year with recruits of all races coming from around the world to learn their deadly lessons and return home to spread the Jihad. The world continued to slumber while he built up his forces and spread the poison of their ideology. In reaction to 9/11 he expected more cruise missiles as had occurred under President Clinton, and which had proven ineffective. Instead what he got was a Western alliance galvanized into action, an invasion that removed the Taliban from power, destroyed his training camps, devastated his base of terrorist fighters, choked off much of his funding, forced his sponsors in Pakistan to engage in combat against al Qaida and its allies, even if only half-heartedly, and caused his followers to flee like rats to hide in the dark. When they tried to regroup and confront the US in Iraq, they did even worse damage to themselves. They lost large numbers of fighters, exposed their funding sources to attack, and demonstrated to the Arab and Muslim world that they were blood thirsty and cruel thugs that were as happy killing Muslims as anybody. As a result of their conduct in Iraq they lost massive amounts of support in the Muslim world. All during this time their leadership was being hunted down by special forces and drones and killed or captured. Bin Laden was reduced to little more than a figurehead hiding in Pakistan. He died like a bandit in hiding, doing little more than writing letters to try to rework his failing strategy, and watching porn. I don't think it worked out the way he thought it would.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Data: If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret?
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Only to those in the fever swamps.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Few people helped them achieve these goals more than Dick Cheney did. So why would they want to kill him?
Because they ultimately failed. When your leader is reduced to hiding in a walled in compound, writing letters and watching porn, you're probably not on the path to success.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The people that want Cheney dead in the Western world are pretty much limited to mainly committed leftists, and maybe some extreme fringe libertarian types. Probably not much more than that.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
If you squint any harder, to distort things to that kind of view, your eyes will burst.
So how come I have to take off my shoes to get on a plane in the airport?
A bomb, pistol, or riffle can be detected more readily then a hacked mobile phone running custom code or the hotel's wifi signal which purposely entered the room they are in.
However, I have been informed that ordinarily, to use the wifi, you have to pass a magnet of certain stength over the device within a certain distance from it. At that time, a small signal can be detected which limits the range the programming device can be from the person. I hope that is true in all situations. On the linked article, they talked about a security researcher who was able to hack a pacemaker from 50 feet away. That is doable with a modified cell phone I would think.
Is that the best you've got? Do you really need me to tell you?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Particularly when the assault would look to observers exactly like a heart attack, of a man who has heart disease. As opposed to looking like a bloody knife sticking out of his chest.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
The problem with Middle East is that Arabs have never been able to accept that because they don't like Jews.
So utterly wrong. It's all about LAND and it being taken from the Palestinians. Taking land from one group and giving it to another tends to make the locals mad.
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No, any compatible ICD "programmer" from a cardiac hospital would work. They use keys for handshaking, but at the manufacturer/model level, not the doctor/patient level.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
All jokes aside - who thought it was a good idea to use wifi to control the human equivalent of overclocking? Sure - people can be killed with RF-guns that destroys pacemakers or even with old fashioned guns or poison and in many other ways. But why add another possibility to the mix? Also given all the jokes on this topic (thought I was on reddit for a while) I'd say that Cheney have good reason to belive someone might not like him. But then I am a stupid foreigner and you are possibly making all these jokes to show the man that you love him very much.
'zo de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten'
or something like: as does the subject trust [something], so does he trust others
Could you please cite the figure of "thousands per year" coming out of the Afghanistan training camps?
Murders don't happen all the time because they have severe consequences. But in this case, catching the murderer would be very hard.
an easier method to kill said device?
I don't really like the Republican party any more. They're running the country into the ground. But listening to how hateful the liberals are, and how they wish death to their political opponents (see list below), I can't really support them either. I don't want to be a member of the party of hate. So for now I'll be an independent.
That being said, if even a few of the below links are accurate, wouldn't you protect yourself from the left, who profess to want their political opponents to die?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9757837/
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/16/dan-savage-hbos-real-time-i-wish-republicans-were-all-f-king-dead
http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-talker-mike-malloy-says-he-wants-gop-literally-dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcqrHLZGDg&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/media-research-center-documents-liberal-death-wishes-against-conservatives
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-dark-side-of-liberalism-death-threats-to-conservatives-and-racist-threats/question-3628447/
GOP/TP started a death-threat pissing war in 1980, liberals finally reply in the uncivil-pissing-war battles during the PBO decade 2008. Now, GOP/TP wealth-elitist and minions whine about US Liberals, Independents, and Patriots being mean to GOP/TP, because of truthiness white-trash dogma and commentaries. It is time to stand against the evils of GOP/TP wealth-elitist and minions hate, lies, and bigotry. http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
I have not forgotten the past three decades of GOP/TP politician/members fear-mongering antics and hate speech. TREASON/CRIMES: Iraq, criminal deletion of Whitehouse email/message traffic, outing CIA agents ....
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
The ICD in my sister did not require a receiver placed over the area. The tech accessed it wirelessly from across the room. It was a small room, granted, but she and her equipment were several feet away.
That was the surprise. We had both thought that holding that puck over the area was required to access the device. We didn't know it could be done without her knowledge or consent from more-than-handshake distance. For that reason, I don't think Cheney is paranoid to have the wireless access to his device somehow limited.
I never said the sky is falling. We were just momentarily and, I think, justifiably startled.
Israel was granted its existence by the UN in 1947
So? That makes it ok? The Arab countries didn't recognize the right of the UN to steal land and give it to others and I'm not sure why they should have. That's not a power the UN should have.
That being said, Israelis have had the land long enough that their claims over it are vastly stronger than anyone else's. It was BS to give them the land back in the 40s because I give no value to their ancestors having the land, just as today I hold the Arab/Islamic claims today in little regard because 70 years ago someone else had the land. The same rationale works both ways.
so-called attack by al Qaeda
Eh?
Am I feeding a truther?
I think you're giving too much credit to the terrorists here. 9/11 was just one of many attempts at flying planes into buildings, and the only one that worked. There was no long-con involved. They weren't thinking 3 steps ahead while anticipating our next moves. They just wanted to bring down one of the symbols of American capitalism with the added benefit of killing as many people as possible.
We screwed up after the fact, but the mistake was ours alone. Not some terrorist mastermind predicting the future.
Osama Bin Laden's stated goal, from his writings many years ago, was to bankrupt Western nations (the United States in particular) by forcing them to put resources into terrorism suppression, with the ultimate goal of getting Western troops out of Islamic countries.
He was trying to put in place a Xanatos Gambit, where one of his major aims would be achieved whichever path we chose. If we poured enough resources into anti-terrorism methods/wars we bankrupted ourselves, we'd have to pull out of the Islamic countries, which was his highest goal. If we stayed financially strong but got hit with terrorist attack after attack, eventually the political pressure would force us either to pull out (fulfilling Al Qaeda's demands) or else pour resources into anti-terrorism methods/wars, bankrupting ourselves. He wins again.
He didn't really anticipate the US would be able to successfully play the "we'll fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" game, nor that drone strikes, invasions, intelligence, et all, would be able to take out enough Al Qaeda command to cripple the organization (and similar organizations). If you listen to the Tea Party, we're bankrupting ourselves already, so who knows what the end result of all of this will be.
Because they ultimately failed. When your leader is reduced to hiding in a walled in compound, writing letters and watching porn, you're probably not on the path to success.
I'm not sure if it's that easy. It was not really what he could do, it was what he was able to make us do. That was the goal, and we played along, but probably not with the results that he expected.
Having said that, whose wise idea was it to make a defibrilator that can be remotely accessed wirelessly in the first place?
Probably someone who thought that sticking a cable through your chest to change the things configuration is an even worse idea.
Ahh, then not Cheney, who had his implant broken precisely so that would be the only way to do it...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
Not good enough for Cheney apparently
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you