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University of Washington Researchers Hack a Remotely Controlled Surgical Robot, Showing Us How Profoundly Vulnerable We Are

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May 8, 2015

"This isn't the first time the University of Washington has conducted such an experiment. The computer science department—particularly the work of Tadayoshi Kohno—has unearthed flaws in embedded medical devices, electronic voting machines, and smart cars. (Check out his PBS profile here.) The school has "a long history of showing that interesting, cutting-edge hardware is vulnerable in some sense," Ryan Calo, a co-author on one of the robotics papers, said. Read more » about University of Washington Researchers Hack a Remotely Controlled Surgical Robot, Showing Us How Profoundly Vulnerable We Are



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on May 08, 2015 at 10:00AM

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