Some of the far-fetched plots on TV spy shows may be more realistic than we knew...Sunday on CBS’ “Sixty Minutes,” former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that he was concerned the he might become the first public official literally to die from a hacker attack. He said he had the wireless feature on his implanted defibrillator disabled because his cardiologist was worried that someone could get near him on a rope line and send a wireless signal that would shut it down and give him a heart attack. If that crazy scenario sounds familiar, it’s because that was last season’s plotline on the Showtime series, “Homeland.” Cheney said he watched it, knowing that he was one of the few viewers who realized just how accurate it was. Unfortunately, that’s not the end of the concerns. It’s only the beginning. As more people receive advanced prosthetics with wireless components, turning us into cyber supermen, VIPs might have to take precautions against a whole new kind of bacteria.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:30:01 +0000
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