October 19th, 2013
Was Dick Cheney’s ICD Vulnerable to Hacking?
Larry Husten, PHD
It happened in Homeland. Could it happen in real life? In a 60 Minutes segment, Dick Cheney says that his doctors turned off the wireless function of his implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) “in case a terrorist tried to send his heart a fatal shock,” according to the Associated Press. Years later, Cheney watched an episode of the Showtime series Homeland, in which […]
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