[jivejones]

Why would anyone try to figure something like this out? I don't think any real hackers are going around trying to figure out how to kill people, they want money or something else of value (not to say a life doesn't have value).

Why as a community are we allowing things like this to happen, even worse, publicizing them and acting like its 733t and impressive. If something like this happened at anything other than the 'Black hat' security conference this wouldn't be alright.

[daeken]

People figure these things out because it's fun. Simple as that. It's the same motivation behind me hacking the various bits of hardware sitting around me, including a number of health-related devices. It's simple curiosity, and sometimes that leads down a path of "well, if I could do this, what could a malicious actor do?" Sometimes that answer isn't a good one.

[kristofferR]

Research like this is really important. For all we know this type of hacking may already have been used to assasinate someone.

Now that this is public there will be a huge pressure on the manufacturer to secure their devices as quickly as possible. If this hadn't been released, there would have been no pressure on the manufacturer to fix it and the assasins could theoretically proceed undetected for a long time.