The Greatest Hits of Hacks [Video]

Avi Rubin, professor of computer science and director of Health and Medical Security Lab at Johns Hopkins University, gives us a run-down of some incredible hacks and attacks that he and others in the field of computer security have managed to successfully perform.

It’s pretty terrifying that they manage to hack everything from getting a car to indicate it’s going slower on the speedometer than it actually is to measuring fluctuations in the accelerometer of a smartphone next to your keyboard to find out what’s being typed on that keyboard to getting internal defibrillators to shock your heart (and kill you).

WARNING: May make you wish you were Amish.

[Via TED]