Beau Woods used to be a hobbyist hacker and now he is a professional one. What used to be friendly pranks, like ejecting his buddies’ CD trays or shutting down their computers from afar, has turned into a crusade to make medical devices safe through a more altruistic form of hacking and a major effort […]
Be Afraid, Be Very, Very Afraid
The combination of medical devices and healthcare information technology (HIT) is very much upon us. When most people think about this merger of technical fields, they are drawn to think of the way in which mobile phones are being used in medical applications, some very much in the manner of medical devices such as ultrasound […]