Karen Sandler of the GNOME Foundation (and Software Freedom Law Center) called attention to this exact problem in 2010 after she had a Medtronic defibrillator installed.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sending, really? What, down a modem, via email, on a webpage?

Reporter Sam Varghese did slightly misstate things in that sentence, but then quoted me a couple of sentences later with the full picture:

Remember the 'Pentium Processor Invalid Instruction Erratum' of 1997, exposing all Intel Pentium and Pentium MMX CPUs to remote security attack, stopping them in their tracks if they could be induced to run processor instruction 'F0 0F C7 C8'?

You know, reading with context with improve your life. Give it a try: Even Slashdot pseuds can summon up the attention span, on a good day.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

I'm not sure I understand the point of this article.

Condolences. But if you ponder long and hard, you might spot the pattern

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com