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user-inactivated  ·  2188 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms

Pacemakers logging to the doctor and the doctor being able to tweak the pacemaker's settings without opening the patient up are probably both useful things. I suspect hospitals will start reevaluating how useful the first time we see pacemaker ransomware.

They aren't just talking about implantable devices though.





kleinbl00  ·  2188 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Pacemakers logging to the doctor and the doctor being able to tweak the pacemaker's settings without opening the patient up are probably both useful things.

Absolutely. But bloody hell they sure as shit don't need to be on the network.

    I suspect hospitals will start reevaluating how useful the first time we see pacemaker ransomware.

That absolutely should not ever, ever work.

    They aren't just talking about implantable devices though.

Absolutely. But bloody hell they sure as shit don't need to be on the network.

user-inactivated  ·  2188 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No argument here.

user-inactivated  ·  2188 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kleinbl00  ·  2188 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Utter bullshit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/business/dealbook/hedge-fund-and-cybersecurity-firm-team-up-to-short-sell-device-maker.html

Meanwhile, the actual exploit has been scrubbed off even Wayback Machine, probably because in general, to update a pacemaker you have to sit a device on the patient's fucking shirt.