http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-killed-a-simulated-human-by-turning-off-its-pacemaker
By Jason Koebler
Staff Writer
Motherboard.vice.com
Sept 7, 2015
We've wondered a couple of times what might happen if a hacker were to
decide to compromise your pacemaker, your bionic arm, or maybe your brain
implant. Thanks to some students at the University of South Alabama, we
now have a reasonably good idea: You die!
There are shades of gray here, of course. But a group of undergraduate
students at the university recently spent a few hours hacking a medical
grade human simulation to see what, exactly would happen. The results were
about what you'd expect.
iStan, the guy you see above, is "the most advanced wireless patient
simulator on the market, with internal robotics that mimic human
cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems," according to its
manufacturer, CAE Healthcare. iStan costs about $100,000 and is regularly
used by hospitals to teach medical school students how to perform
procedures without murdering people.
"They sweat, they cry, they talk," Mike Jacobs, director of the
simulations program at University of South Alabama, told me. "It responds
to 300 different types of simulated medications and procedures, and the
physiological response is identical to that of a human."
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