Tattooing Patients With UV Ink Could Protect Pacemakers From Hackers
April 18th, 2010Oh sure.
Via: Popular Science:
More and more implantable devices, like pacemakers or defibrillators, are turning to wireless signals as a means to communicate with external devices, but in doing so they open themselves to security breaches. Several solutions are in the works that tackle this problem by upping device defenses, but by piling on security measures, yet another risk emerges: that at a critical time an authorized physician might not be able to access the device.
So Microsoft Research proposes putting a new technological spin on an old, time-tested security protocol: protect every device with a password, then tattoo the password right onto the patient in invisible UV ink.
Given their miserable track record on security, the fact that Microsoft endorses this idea speaks testaments against it.
I think the only jerk-offs that would be interested is the mind-controlled cult “Anonymous”.