Comments on: Hacking Wireless Pacemakers http://kb6nu.com/hacking-wireless-pacemakers/ My personal adventures in amateur radio Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jim http://kb6nu.com/hacking-wireless-pacemakers/#comment-298625 Jim Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:39:20 +0000 http://kb6nu.com/hacking-wireless-pacemakers/#comment-298625 My father had a pacemaker (1975) and it was as big as a hockey puck. You could easily feel it under his skin. It was placed in his chest just below his collar bone above his left breast. He passed away many years ago. I am sure people who currently have pacemakers will be thrilled to read this. I find that the technology is moving so fast that the engineers who developed this current generation of pacemakers probably didn't take the time to consider the hazards that are looming for unsuspecting patients. I can't imagine that it was too hard to reverse engineer the communication protocols. Most of this stuff has evolved from previous designs and are known to most in the business. Nothing is a secret for very long. 73 Jim -.- ---.. . .-.. .-. My father had a pacemaker (1975) and it was as big as a hockey puck. You could easily feel it under his skin. It was placed in his chest just below his collar bone above his left breast. He passed away many years ago. I am sure people who currently have pacemakers will be thrilled to read this. I find that the technology is moving so fast that the engineers who developed this current generation of pacemakers probably didn’t take the time to consider the hazards that are looming for unsuspecting patients. I can’t imagine that it was too hard to reverse engineer the communication protocols. Most of this stuff has evolved from previous designs and are known to most in the business. Nothing is a secret for very long.

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