Viruses can infect implants and spread

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Some of us have been saying this would be possible and it looks like we were right. Implanted chips can be infected with viruses and these viruses can then spread. So, if all medical data is digitized and also stored on chips with the patients, said chips could be infected and then infect the whole system, or vice versa. Putting RFIDs in everything is not a good idea.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e2f5ea4-68b5-11df-96f1-00144feab49a.html

A scientist at the University of Reading has become the first human to be “infected†with a computer virus, as part of research into the potential risks associated with electronic devices implanted into humans.

Dr Mark Gasson, of the School of Systems Engineering, said the study had important implications for devices such as heart pacemakers and cochlear implants, which have now developed to the point where they could be attacked by computer viruses.

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If you buy a TV set these days, chances are if you read your instruction manual,

you will see something in it which says that the TV is FCC complaint and

inlikely to interupt licensed frequencies.

But if you could invent a device that IS capable of transmitting a virus, you

could infect anything you wanted with it.

These days, computer viruses can be spread via Wi-Fi.

If you had an implanted chip capable of receiving a transmission, someone could

walk past and alter the data on it.

More significantly, no one would really know if the designers, manufacturers,

distrinutors, etc., of the chip have implanted anything in the chip that might

allow them to take control of the chip at some later date.

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Some of us have been saying this would be possible and it looks like we were

right. Implanted chips can be infected with viruses and these viruses can then

spread. So, if all medical data is digitized and also stored on chips with the

patients, said chips could be infected and then infect the whole system, or vice

versa. Putting RFIDs in everything is not a good idea.