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by rapnie 1483 days ago
Reminds me of Barnaby Jack [0] who in 2011/2012 "demonstrated that he could wirelessly hack the insulin pump from a distance of up to 90 metres using the high-gain antenna". That was based on the hardware and not even all kinds of smart cloud-connected apps having bugs to exploit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack#Insulin_pumps

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On the other hand, those OSS closed loop systems are only possible because of such vulnerabilities that allowed reverse engineering.