Kick Start Your Heart

MayorBob.

Posted to SciTech on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 03:24:41 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Seven years ago Vice President Dick Cheney's heart was given a little help -- an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD).  Cheney joined millions of other people alive today thanks to ICDs or pacemarkers inside them.  The smallish implants allows secure wireless communication to and from the wearer's heart.  Apparently, there may be a glitch in the security of such devices as doctors are warning that these devices could be hacked.

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