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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by Cthulhu_ on Friday May 02, 2014 @03:28AM (#7684489)
The thing with equipment like this is that security isn't a priority; "who would hack medical equipment?". A lack of high-profile cases where medical equipment was actively hacked is also not giving any incentive to fix these issues.

Worst case, these exploits will suddenly be used to disable or cripple hospitals in case of dirty wars and terrorist campaigns. If the latter is still a problem.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by forgottenpass on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:42AM (#7685290)
Your comment is a few years out of date. The FDA has recently started caring, and there are high-enough profile cases to be on the industry's radar.

It'll continue to be a mess for years to come, the introduction of new medical hardware and software is slow and I don't know how they plan to handle already deployed items. But not exactly for the reasons you state.

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