Brilliant Article for Ethical Computer use

Mar 14th, 2008

Does this raise serious issues? Researchers can hack pacemakers and other medical devices.

“It didn’t take much to hack into the heart monitoring device and get it to administer a 137-volt shock: an oscilloscope, a PC, a wireless radio with a couple of antennas and some free software.”

This is worth Reading and a brilliant starting point for ethical discussions with your classes.

URL: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/3BEC0F290DE04518CC25740B00133B0C?opendocument&utm_source=topnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=topnews

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