Insulin pump maker ignores diabetic's hack warnings
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 24 August 2011
A commercially available pump made by Medtronic, the world's biggest medical device manufacturer, is vulnerable to attacks that allow strangers to increase, decrease, or stop the flow of insulin being administered, the Associated Press reported.
That's in addition to the zinger here in which Medtronic recently said: "To our knowledge, there has never been a single reported incident outside of controlled laboratory experiments in more than 30 years of device telemetry use, which includes millions of devices worldwide."
This isn't really about a controlled laboratory experiments. Medtronic will change it's stand on this as soon as the first malware exploiting this bug is in the wild.