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Given our track record with securing other implanted technology like pacemakers and insulin pumps, the thought of this is pretty terrifying. What happens when
by joshfraser 12y ago
Given our track record with securing other implanted technology like pacemakers and insulin pumps, the thought of this is pretty terrifying. What happens when someone hacks your chip and tells it to release the entire dosage at once?
- Ygg2 12y agoDepends how much impact does that pill have. I'm not sure it is worse than hacked pacemakers - death by hacking is not something a person wearing a pacemaker will want to worry about.
- Blackthorn 12y agoRegardless of the security, pacemakers and insulin pumps have led to an enormous quality of life improvement for an enormous number of people so that is perhaps not the comparison you want to making for the affect you want to effect.
- pyre 12y ago> pacemakers and insulin pumps have led to an enormous quality of life Are you comparing the quality-of-life boost that pacemakers and insulin pumps give you to something like contraception? Maybe I'm just misinformed, but contraceptives can even come in pill form nowadays. How does going from "taking a pill" => "implanted pump" even compare (especially since the other two are about life-threatening issues)?