If the recent news of hackers hitting Apple's new line of Macbook batteries with the potential to make them explode, or the Subaru unlock and start hack with a text message wasn't enough to scare you, now researchers are worrying about medical devices.
At the recent Blackhat security conference researcher and diabetic Jay Radcliffe pondered about the ability of hackers to gain access to wireless glucose meters attached to insulin pumps and deliver a lethal dose.
Radcliffe hasn't figured out how to this...yet, but in theory a hacker with a big enough antenna could be up to half a mile away when the hack occurs.
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