Insulin pumps, monitors vulnerable to hacking

I know hackers are pure scum but surely they'd not be this much of it that they'd hack medical equipment to mess with peoples health? If so, they should be charged with attempted murder.

How about blaming the lazy engineers who wrote the code with exploits, knowing they are building life dependent critical medical equipment?

The article doesn't say that hackers , they are 'chicken littling' that hackers . . .

And most of the time, hackers aren't 'pure scum'. They are people like you and me, who like to see how things work. They invent things like lightbulbs and diesel engines.

How about blaming the lazy engineers who wrote the code with exploits, knowing they are building life dependent critical medical equipment?

The article doesn't say that hackers , they are 'chicken littling' that hackers . . .

And most of the time, hackers aren't 'pure scum'. They are people like you and me, who like to see how things work. They invent things like lightbulbs and diesel engines.

Hackers invent things like lightbulbs and diesel engines? Lol don't give me a laugh. Perhaps they are smart enough and capable of doing something like that but I very much doubt that's what they are up to. The net is littered with one kind of hacker and that's people ranging from 12 year olds sending out virus's or 40 year olds stll living with there mom hacking companies or sending out mass and advanced virus's.

The only good hackers and I use that term lightly are the ones who get paid to tighten security for companies. I've been a gamer for a long time and as such I've come across a ton of hackers, a lot for some reason I've met in StarCraft the first one. They were all assholes who's only enjoyment was to try and send you virus's. Mess up your PC, or just fuck with you in any way possible. I've never met a hacker that tried to use his skills other than being a troll.

Besides my personal experience with hackers, there has NEVER been a "good" story about hackers. It's only there destruction and nussense. I also never said hackers were hacking these things, I said it wouldn't suprise me if they did. I also do blame the people who made the things, they should have predicated it but still, they wouldn't have to and shouldn't have to if hackers never existed. They've always been a sore on everybody and they always will be. Hence why they are scum.

How about blaming the lazy engineers who wrote the code with exploits, knowing they are building life dependent critical medical equipment?

The article doesn't say that hackers , they are 'chicken littling' that hackers . . .

And most of the time, hackers aren't 'pure scum'. They are people like you and me, who like to see how things work. They invent things like lightbulbs and diesel engines.

Funny, I don't recall reading any stories about Thomas Edison or Rudolf Diesel trying to access government confidential sites or trying to access stored credit card numbers while they were inventing stuff.

How about blaming the lazy engineers who wrote the code with exploits, knowing they are building life dependent critical medical equipment?

The article doesn't say that hackers , they are 'chicken littling' that hackers . . .

And most of the time, hackers aren't 'pure scum'. They are people like you and me, who like to see how things work. They invent things like lightbulbs and diesel engines.

Funny, I don't recall reading any stories about Thomas Edison or Rudolf Diesel trying to access government confidential sites or trying to access stored credit card numbers while they were inventing stuff.

The media can't seem to get their terminology right, as a result people also get it wrong. You are speaking of 'crackers'. People who break into computers and steal stuff.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/cracker
http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarg ... d-crackers

I am speaking of 'hackers' and 'phreaks' - people who disassemble things and reassemble them to affect different operation than intended. Crackers are bad. Hackers and Phreaks are mostly harmless, and often creatively solve problems.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/hacker
http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HackerDef.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phreaker

Anytime you open this door, your device is vulnerable to malicious input.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.