TED Talks



http://www.ted.com/talks

Are you a member of Mensa?  Do you like smart people whom share their knowledge, experience and passions?  Then TED, short for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, can provide you with hours of videos of TEDTalks.

Here is a TEDTalk from November of 2011 that is not only informative, topical, and very relevant to many people whom own or operate electronics that accept or are manipulated by wireless communications.  Avi Rubin, a professor of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University, describes how many common as well as hi-tech medical computer-controlled devices have been hacked.  His specialty is in trustworthy computing.

In addition to many of the electronic systems in late model cars, Dr. Rubin provides these examples of implanted medical devices that are designed to be reprogammed wirelessly, yet do not have security features to prevent, uh, undesired changes:

• insulin pump
• artificial pancreas
• programmable vasectomy
• artificial neurostimulators
• obesity control
• artificial vision

Overall, his talk was humorous, yet ultimately sobering.  You might enjoy many of the other TED presentations.  Go to www.ted.com.  But not while you're at work!