will we all soon have microchips ?

[sunshaker]

I suffer from very high blood pressure, I have taken different compo's of pills but nothing really lowers my blood pressure, Did not like side effects so I stopped meds, Now trying natural remedies,

Came across this today about microchips that will soon be implanted in neck to regulate blood pressure. Would I?

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/05/implant-controls-high-blood-pressure-sans-drugs/

 

 

Also "birthcontrol chip" that will last for 16yrs

http://www.naturalnews.com/044902_microchips_medical_implants_population_control.html#

 

DARPA brain chip can implant and remove memories

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/06/darpa-brain-chips-can-implant-or-remove-memories/

 

So just looking around today, There seems to be many chips on the verge of becoming a reality, Which leads me to believe that most kids being born today will have microchips by the time they are adults.

 

This scares me a bit, As we all now there are "hackers" who love hacking into anything,

 

 

[Nicholas Kang]

I think the chips is just one part of the integration of AI in human body. It is just the start of silicon consciousness. Actually, hearing aids and Infared glasses are considered as chips assisting you body too. Implantation of chips into your body, as the book The Future of The Mind by Michio Kaku has stated, will be all the rage at some point of time in the future. I believe that.

[swansont]

 

This scares me a bit, As we all now there are "hackers" who love hacking into anything,

 

I seem to recall that people have written about bluetooth-enabled devices such as pacemakers which vulnerable to hacking, because there is no password. Doctors want easy access to the device, especially in an emergency.

 

However, I'm not sure how real the hacking threat is. More movie-plot than real, probably.

[sunshaker]

Just came across this and looks promising for the future, Quadriplegic man controls arm using microchip implanted in brain, It bypasses spinal cord injuries by transmitting from brain straight to muscles

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-medical-first-quadriplegic-man-controls-arm-using-a-chip-implanted-in-his-brain-9561255.html

 

 

"Implanted medical microchips are planned to be mainstream in the US by 2017"

http://therapybook.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/implanted-medical-microchips-are-planned-to-be-mainstream-in-the-us-by-2017/

 

Soon I can see the mobile phone companies finding away to profit from some kind of chip in the brain, Soon we will be popping into your local phone warehouse for a chip implant.

Time for me to get a couple of domain names ready for this soon to be tech explosion

Edited July 7, 2014 by sunshaker

[swansont]

There's a hug gap between chips for specific medical maladies and chips for everyone.

[physica]

Yeah sure biophysics is improving medicine without a doubt. What we have to consider is practicalities. You have given some examples where implanting them is needed. However, the majority of chips and devices I've seen developed in the research department in our hospital have been external. For instance one of my friend's is developing an artificial pancreas using only 6 differential equations (I seriously wonder why anybody takes biology as a major nowadays, physics maths and biophysics is where the true innovation lies) and the sensor and pump is strapped onto a belt and infused into the fatty tissue.

 

Why? because surgery has risks and can also introduce infection. Also biofilms can adhere onto metal/plastic meaning a patient can come in and out of hospital many times with infections. Also if the equipment goes wrong then surgery is needed again to replace it. You will find that if a medical tech company can make something that functions outside the body they will. it's cheaper for the patient and a ton safer. If they don't then another medical tech company will take their business. The patients I've seen with insulin pumps etc usually have a spare that they are advised to change immediately if they start to feel acutely sick and seek medical attention as soon as possible.

[Sato]

 

I seem to recall that people have written about bluetooth-enabled devices such as pacemakers which vulnerable to hacking, because there is no password. Doctors want easy access to the device, especially in an emergency.

 

However, I'm not sure how real the hacking threat is. More movie-plot than real, probably.

 

I had a friend who worked under a biomedical engineer who demonstrated a side-channel attack on pacemakers, and was then able to read information from and interact with them.

[Tzurain]

 

However, I'm not sure how real the hacking threat is. More movie-plot than real, probably.

The hacking threat is very real, my acquaintance.

 

As someone who knows programming, and have managed some servers before, I believe I am allowed to say that it is not difficult to hack/bypass an online security system.

 

There was once a time, when I was more immature than of myself now, I hacked into a Pokemon website and became a self made Admin. Hacking is usually not to computing prowess, but rather by being deceiving and smooth trickery.

 

On a random note, I became more responsible, mature, and put my skills to better uses.

 

But the conclusion is, hacking happens. And from my personal experience, usually for personal amusement.

[swansont]

The hacking threat is very real, my acquaintance.

 

As someone who knows programming, and have managed some servers before, I believe I am allowed to say that it is not difficult to hack/bypass an online security system.

 

There was once a time, when I was more immature than of myself now, I hacked into a Pokemon website and became a self made Admin. Hacking is usually not to computing prowess, but rather by being deceiving and smooth trickery.

 

On a random note, I became more responsible, mature, and put my skills to better uses.

 

But the conclusion is, hacking happens. And from my personal experience, usually for personal amusement.

 

Do you have some links to news reports of pacemakers (or other implanted medical devices) being hacked?

[Tzurain]

 

Do you have some links to news reports of pacemakers (or other implanted medical devices) being hacked?

BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17623948 - States the vunelrability of pacemakers to hijack etc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383908/Was-nerd-killed-discovering-murder-pacemaker.html

 

In my opinion, I think it'll be quite hard to catch someone who hijacks into medical devices, unless there are witnesses etc, because they could do it from a distance, and discreetly. It's not a traceable thing.

Edited October 2, 2014 by Tzurain

[swansont]

BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17623948 - States the vunelrability of pacemakers to hijack etc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383908/Was-nerd-killed-discovering-murder-pacemaker.html

 

In my opinion, I think it'll be quite hard to catch someone who hijacks into medical devices, unless there are witnesses etc, because they could do it from a distance, and discreetly. It's not a traceable thing.

 

Th vulnerability is real. I already posted that. You implied this was actually happening ("hacking happens").

[Tzurain]

I tried to find cases of medical devices being hacked, and was surprised to find none, where most sites just state the vulnerability of it being hijacked.

 

However, after a brief thought, I did however decided to check the death rate from pacemaker malfunctioning and their causes. Here are some sites.

 

http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1130173
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3229430
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/pacing-system-malfunction-evaluation-and-management

A person could fire an EMP gun or a similar device and shut down a pacemaker. It's possible anyone that has done so got away (from arrest). And if anyone did commit the crime, I wouldn't expect them to surrender and be caught easily.

One thing to think about is, how will the police catch the villain if they don't suspect a murder case in the first place (i.e pacemaker malfunction suspect)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse (emp)

[Phi for All]

A person could fire an EMP gun or a similar device and shut down a pacemaker. It's possible anyone that has done so got away (from arrest). And if anyone did commit the crime, I wouldn't expect them to surrender and be caught easily.

 

Yeah, that's a movie plot scenario. First, the victim you have enough motive against to kill for has to have a pacemaker. Then you have to make an EMP device. When you use it on the victim, it has to be in a place where you're alone with the victim, otherwise it will look very suspicious when everyone's phones and cars stop working (including your own; getaway much?).

 

If you're alone with the victim, you don't have to go all Hollywood on him. The guy has heart problems, there must be a dozen simpler ways to do the deed.

[For Prose]

 

I seem to recall that people have written about bluetooth-enabled devices such as pacemakers which vulnerable to hacking, because there is no password. Doctors want easy access to the device, especially in an emergency.

 

However, I'm not sure how real the hacking threat is. More movie-plot than real, probably.

 

Had I not previously read something about it, I would have agreed.

Actually, scratch that. Just read where you state that it is a possibility but not likely.

 

Yeah, that's a movie plot scenario. First, the victim you have enough motive against to kill for has to have a pacemaker. Then you have to make an EMP device. When you use it on the victim, it has to be in a place where you're alone with the victim, otherwise it will look very suspicious when everyone's phones and cars stop working (including your own; getaway much?).

 

If you're alone with the victim, you don't have to go all Hollywood on him. The guy has heart problems, there must be a dozen simpler ways to do the deed.

 

Of course, if you had a car that did not rely on electrical systems for getaway... The plot thickens

[davidivad]

guys you only need an rf transmitter in the microwave range

still need line of sight

edit:

no need to hack

genetics is opening up new tech in the area of body devices fairly soon. they are working out the encoding now.

this is a vastly superior tech and much less invasive to the body.

Edited October 19, 2014 by davidivad

[TheArchitect]

Being human, and our demand for connectivity leads us to make drastically unsafe leaps for profit. Greed will take over the bio-medical and engineering industries. If* the two collide more than they have, alongside entrepreneurs who are willing and* able to pair the two up, human augmentation will become more of a reality. For example, (I am a gamer so my points may not be accurate or imaginative, sorry), A soldier and a actual heads-up display or HUD. A full inventory of ammo and other resources "on screen" or dermal armor if* we ever make the leaps to those such discoveries. Super-human strength can be attained through "over-clocking" one's body with a mechanical chassis unlike we've seen is produced, except inside the body. These are physical impossibilities with what we have now. Drastic measures are taken in the advancement of human science however. Nazi experiments for example. (I'm sorry if this s a drastic leap from my point). Nazis had experimented with cloning genetics also, sewing different body parts onto a new host. Imagine this just with electronic limbs.

 

Sorry for the length and the randomness of the statement.

[Harold Squared]

Actually it strikes me that an implanted chip could just provide positive identification and that a person's health history, (and probably criminal, scholastic and employment history) could be stored in the cloud and keyed to the chip.