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James Bamford

James Bamford is an expert on the highly secretive National Security Agency. His recent book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to The Eavesdropping on America, on which NOVA's "The Spy Factory" was based became a New York Times best-seller and was named by The Washington Post as one of "The Best Books of 2008." It is third in a trilogy by Bamford on the NSA, following The Puzzle Palace (1982) and Body of Secrets (2002), also a New York Times bestseller. Bamford has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Harpers, and many other publications. In 2006, he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his piece "The Man Who Sold The War," published in Rolling Stone. A native of Massachusetts, Bamford served as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, and he later used the GI Bill to earn his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

Medical Devices New Health Hazard:Hackable Medical implants. msnbc.com Technology Jordon Robertson AP associated press Explains that medical devices such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, operating room monitors, defibrillators, surgical instruments including deep-brain stimulators are being made with the ability to transmit vital health information from a patient's body to doctors and other professionals. Some of these devices can be remotely controlled by medical professionals. There has been concern about human error and technical glitches. While few studies have been done on the susceptibility of medical devices to hacking, there is a risk. In 2008, Computer scientists proved that pacemakers and defibrillators can be hacked wirelessly through the use of of radio hardware, an antenna and a personal computer. Jay Radcliff, a security researcher has become increasingly interested in the security of the medical devices. He raises fears about the safety of these devices. Radcliff is sharing his his research in a presentation called, Hacking Medical Devices for Fun and Insulin: Breaking the Human SCADA System. Radcliff fears that the devices are vulnerable and has found that a lethal attack is possible against those with insulin pumps and glucose monitors as well. Medical device makers downplay the threat from such attacks and argue that the demonstrated attacks have been performed by skilled security researchers and are unlikely to occur in the real world. But a debate continues Others argue that the push to automate medical devices and include wireless chips has resulted in devices that are too small to house processors powerful enough to perform advanced encryption that could scramble communication from hackers. He found that an insulin pump can be reprogrammed to respond to a stranger's remote using a USB device. An attacker would need to be within a couple of 100 feet of the patient, a stranger wandering a hospital would be close enough. He found he could tamper with blood-sugar monitors which would result in releasing the wrong dosage of insulin. th