Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
SP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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Communications of the ACM - Being Human in the Digital Age
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Rapid advances in medicine are increasingly enabling the integration of information technology with biology. Each year, tens of thousands of medical devices, including pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators and insulin pumps are being implanted into human beings around the world. While a small community of researchers has begun to pose critical questions about the privacy and security implications of incorporating computer technology into biological systems, little if any consideration has been given to the criminal opportunities created by doing so. Just as personal computers, credit cards, ATMs, mobile phones and SCADA systems have been subverted for criminal purposes, so too will implantable medical devices (IMDs). While IMDs have the potential to heal and save lives, they can also be exploited to commit crimes ranging from homicide to extortion. Heretofore law enforcement and criminal justice authorities have been absent from any substantive discussions regarding the highly disruptive future trends in medicine--an omission that must be remedied in order ensure public safety in the face of emerging, but imminent forms of criminal attack directed against medical technologies.