There is a number of people depending on the medical device to cure their disease and to survive. Doctors treat patients by controling the device. But then, it appears a problem that if criminals handle this control, it brings danger to patients.
In this case, if the device can be controlled without cryptology, it is harmful for medicine and will damage social stability. However, medical devices are always small in order to implant to patients' bodies conveniently and safely. As a result, it becomes a serious problem for medical scientists to design the devices with cryptology function.
Though it is difficult but it is really necessary to invent such equipment to improve the security in medical devices. Hope there will be an advanced technology to solve this problem.
I never realized that this was a problem with medical devices. It is scary to think that a criminal can control a health device and potentially hurt somebody.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that struck me in particular about this article that we read for class was that hacking into medical devices is possible, but has not been done before. The researchers tested the idea of hacking into pacemakers, for example, to see if it was possible. They proved that it was. It was said that the reason for this premature research was to always be one step ahead of potential dangers in the real world involving technology. Now that this article was published, making it public knowledge that hacking into medical devices is a possible and effective way to harm or even kill a person, have these researchers unintentionally implanted this harmful idea into the minds of people actually evil enough to do it? Are we in more danger now after this article was published than before?
ReplyDeleteWhat kinds of devices are you talking about?
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