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Insulin pump hacker gets federal attention as Reps ask for GAO investigation
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:30:34 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.massdevice.com/news/insulin-pump-hacker-gets-federal-attention-reps-ask-gao-investigation By MassDevice staff August 18, 2011Reps Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) ask the Government Accountability Office to look into medical device security in response to the DefCon report from an insulin pump hacker.
The recent report of an computer security expert who hacked his own insulin pump got the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee.
This week senior committee members Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) urged the Government Accountability Office to investigate the safety and security of wireless medical devices, citing an article written about the pump hack.
"My initial reaction was that this was really cool from a technical perspective," security expert and hacker Jay Radcliffe told the Associated Press. "The second reaction was one of maybe sheer terror, to know that there's no security around the devices which are a very active part of keeping me alive."
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