Cheney's defibrillator was modified to prevent hacking

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Quite interesting. I never knew this was possible.

(CNN)

-- Cautious doctors replacing former Vice President Dick Cheney's heart defibrillator in 2007 modified it so it couldn't be hacked by terrorists who might try to kill him, Cheney told CNN's Sanjay Gupta in an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/20/us/dick-cheney-gupta-interview/

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It was part of the plot line in HOMELAND knocked off the VP in that fashion as payback for this fictional character ordering drone strikes, he was CIA chief .

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It was part of the plot line in HOMELAND knocked off the VP in that fashion as payback for this fictional character ordering drone strikes, he was CIA chief .

Well thanks man, I'm not up to that episode yet...

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As someone who full time works in IT Security... it's interesting to see this make the news.

There ARE a lot of threats out there around us that we don't realize - we (as a society) have the stupidest things connected to "The Internet" (power plants... critical infrastructure... etc.) and it just takes the right person, at the right place, at the right time, to cause chaos.

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In an episode of NCIS the pacemaker in a 'whistle blower' was hacked and adjusted to kill him by inducing a heart attack.