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So far, bugs in medical devices have been documented that have led to death or physical damage. Bad radiation doses, retina burning laser powers, etc. Given that most of those devices run on MS-Windows, I'm still more worried about bugs than attacks, but indeed it would be trivial for bad guys to target you if you need to be hooked on such devices...

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Imagine, for instance, manipulating medical images to make a prominent politician (and their doctors) believe they have a dangerous tumor in their amygdala, making them undergo radiotherapy that fries half their amygdala, turning that politician into a liberal.

Moral implications aside, I can see a reason to explore that idea ;-)

Note: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

"Individuals with a large amygdala are more sensitive to fear...which, taken together with our findings, might suggest the testable hypothesis that individuals with larger amygdala are more inclined to integrate conservative views into their belief system."

Fascinating. I'm going to avoid going off-topic any further, though.

Good someone enjoyed the idea. It cost me a ton of karma ;-)

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