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fyhnyesterday at 9:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Not all though, I've been looking at Minimed pump reverse engineering (which would be just reading glucose data, not controlling the pump), and that's not solved yet, at least not for the 780G. But I hope it will be, and perhaps I'll be able to contribute.


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mlsuyesterday at 9:23 PM

I don't work for Medtronic. But it's extremely unlikely that will happen. It's not merely a matter of reverse engineering -- after the original medtronic "hack" / reverse engineer efforts (the ones that lead to the original openAPS system being developed) the FDA put out new guidance on cybersecurity protections for insulin pumps.

The communication between your phone/pump or glucose sensor/pump is encrypted now for all newer devices.

> Diabetic companies like Insulet have been very lax when it’s come to the hacking of their devices

Absolutely not true, not any more.