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Remote Control Senior Citizens?

by chrisemcleod Mar 11, 2008 9:18PM PDT

Forget your worries about your neighbor illicitly printing to your unsecured network printer. Researchers have discovered they can intercept signals from defibrillators and then reprogram them.

Prepare yourself for an army of the not-quite-dead:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_hi_te/heart_device_hacking

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