Medical researchers were able to deliver shocks and stop a Medtronic pacemaker without using the control box. The box, sold only to the doctors of pacemaker recipients, communicates with the device via radio waves. But the lab workers were able to duplicate the signals remotely, and figured out how to get the private medical information from it as well. Just think of the fun some really creepy people could have with spinal cord simulators and drug delivery pumps! [Wall Street Journal]

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