MIT designing system to protect implants against wireless attacks

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Scientists from MIT are designing a wearable signal jamming system, to protect implantable medical devices (such as this pacemaker) from wireless attacks (Image: Lucien Monfils)

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An assassin waits for his target to walk into range, then presses a button on a radio transmitter, causing the target’s pacemaker to deliver a lethal dose of electricity. Such a scenario may be fictional for now, but as more and more medical implants are designed to wirelessly send and receive data, it becomes increasingly possible. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are certainly aware of the dangers of wireless attacks on implants, so they’ve developed a countermeasure – a wearable signal jamming device.

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