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Matt Levine wrote about this today [ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-26/herbalife... ]:

"One thing I wonder about is: Even if Block is right, why would you hack someone's pacemaker? It is just so ... mean. And complicated. Like, if you wanted to murder someone with a pacemaker, it seems like it would be easier to walk up to him and shoot him with a gun than to buy the hardware and develop the expertise to hack his pacemaker, get within hacking range, and then do it. Pacemaker-hacking does not seem like an optimal method if your goal is just regular murder. (Not legal advice!)

"I guess one reason to hack a pacemaker is financial: You could short a ton of St. Jude's stock, hack some of its pacemakers, kill some people and wait for the stock to crash. (This is again not legal advice, though it is a free plot for a financial thriller if anyone's working on one.) But if you are a hacker looking to make money by shorting St. Jude's stock, and you have figured out how to hack its pacemakers, actually going and murdering a bunch of people seems mean and unnecessary and really extremely illegal. You should just short the stock and then tell people that you can hack the pacemakers."