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Re:A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes by DavideNL on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:43AM (#17724074)
With the poor state of Android security at the moment (in a nutshell, Android 9 Pie was just released while the previous Oreo release is installed on only 12% of devices), i cannot imagine anyone would want to connect a device that "can easily kill you" to an Android phone.

Most non-technical people using this DIY solution are probably not even aware of this...

Re:A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes by Gregoriy on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:11AM (#17731522)
The way it works make in sort that it can't kill you easy at all, the system does not regulate bolus insulin which is without a limit, but a basal rate which is basically a rate of insulin distribution from slow to fast, even the fastest mode will not kill you, and if the system disconects for some reason pump uses a default average speed.
Re:A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes by DavideNL on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:34AM (#17732108)
> the system does not regulate bolus insulin which is without a limit

I understand that but the issue remains;

all a hacker would have to do is set basal rate to 100000% and then you have a "bolus that kills you".

Call it basal or bolus, it doesn't matter. The pump just pushes out insulin, and the amount can be controlled if you can hack the system.