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Hackable Hearts

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This week on Spark - My Cyborg My Self. As implanted medical devices become more commonplace, they're bringing up lots of issues, especially around security. We ask: who will control the devices in our bodies? Also, should we just accept long, limiting cellphone contracts as just a part of life? Or is there another, very Canadian answer to the problem?

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BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
This was worth listening to, just for Karen Sandler's account of her efforts to explain (to her doctor and her mother) her reservations about having a computer-controlled (wi-fi accessible?) pace-maker implanted in her chest.
tracyanne ·
Oops blue screen of death.

Sorry someone uploaded a rogue .exe file into your pacemaker, thankfully it's only a spambot, so you'll live, but everytime you go near an open wifi node your heart will slow down while it sends spam.

Nortons AntiVirus for your heart, the cure for heart burn.

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