Encryption, PINs, or passwords sound great until you consider that any emergency room, EMT, and cardiologist's office in the country needs to be able to access the pacer at a moments notice in order to render possibly life saving treatment. The patient may arrive unconscious, or even if he's not, he may not know the PIN. You could put a key on a medical ID bracelet but how many people wear those things after the first six months?

No, right now I can pass out where I please and wherever I end up, they'll be able to talk to my pacer. Force the manufacturer to encrypt it and one day I might end up turning blue on a table while the nurse is on hold with tech support. No question, I'm coming back to haunt the fool who forced encryption. I hope he's ok with books flying off the shelf for no reason because I'll be relentless.

Several:
http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2008/07/missles-missles-everywhere.html

Well, you've got a blogger convinced so I don't know what other evidence you could possibly need.

You can click on the link to get an complete list of transactions, and the White House isn't even listed. And if it *had* been listed, it would just be one transaction out of a list of 1,396.

You can see that the biggest increase is at the IRS and that they shred more than all the other agencies combined. You don't want them warehousing your old tax forms do you?

No, this is just wishful thinking.