Sound and Fury

Or someone else's.

Apparently the wireless monitoring and control system is entirely unsecured. So the device can be monitored, reprogrammed and made to shock the patient's heart with off the shelf equipment and some custom hackery.

Obviously, no one is actually going to do this. I hope. Though the first comment on the Schneier blog post was, "Doesn't Dick Cheney have one of these things?"

Security is important. It's essential to reliability. It should be considered when designing devices like this. Otherwise, you end up with some fool with a Pringles can and a laptop assassinating the vice president of the United States.

That would be embarrassing.