Dick Cheney is afraid of being killed over the internet

[Michchamp]

LOL @ him. He knew people hated him so much, he was afraid someone would try to hack his pacemaker via its wifi connection and kill him.

Although there have been no reported cases of hacking-related death to date, last year former US vice president Dick Cheney had the wireless function removed on his defibrillator in order to prevent potential hackers from accessing his device remotely. Cheney?s fear was fictionally realised in the political thriller Homeland, in which his counterpart was murdered by terrorists who were able to hack into his pacemaker ? ?[the scene] was an accurate portrayal of what was possible,? Cheney said.
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Link. In non-DickCheney news, article predicts the worlds first internet killing will occur before the end of this year.

 

[Michchamp]

yes, I also wondered why a defibrillator would need a wifi connection

 

[Thumb]

Come on dude everything better with wifi.

Get with the times.

Of course, Bluetooth would be better.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Don't they have old fashioned, non-Wi-Fi related pacemakers?

Or have those gone the way of the Buggywhip?

 

[Gulo Blue]

yes, I also wondered why a defibrillator would need a wifi connection

So it can send a message when something goes wrong.

 

[Michchamp]

So it can send a message when something goes wrong.

Makes sense. So maybe now something will go wrong and it won't be able to send a msg and he'll die.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Makes sense. So maybe now something will go wrong and it won't be able to send a msg and he'll die.

I'd guess it's not the defibrillator that got someone looking into wifi, but the pacemaker and before that neural implants. (And then as long as the pacemaker has wifi, the defibrillator does too. It's just one machine, right?) I recall reading about neural implants that can stop certain severe twitching/shaking conditions, but you have to tweak the signal the implant produces every so often. Wifi was the way to go. I don't know that it's the correct chronological order, but I'd guess it started with the neural implants, then someone used the same thing on pacemakers. Could be the other way around, but there are so many pacemakers, I bet there was already some other solution for tweaking the device as needed.

 

[Michchamp]

huh. now zyxt might not be so keen on his brain chip implant idea, knowing someone could hack it, and use it to make him join ISIS and post on the internet about how great Hamas is, and we shouldn't go to war with every other country on the planet, just because.