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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday May 02, 2014 @02:54PM (#7687423)
They don't need to do the calculation because their intuition already leads them to the right decision. This is just economics. What is the payoff for the evildoer hacking a pacemaker? Oh right, he's a contract killer? Too many movies for you. It's just more profitable to replace the payment processing app with your own payment skimming app at some big store.
Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by hessenwolf on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:14AM (#7697295)
Re intutition, there are several statistically observable anomalies in human decision-making.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/behavioral_finance/

(note the article is in several sections)