Statement from Animas about "pump hack"
Below you will find the statement I just received from the Director of\ Global Communications at Animas Corporation. It complements the post with a Q&A issued by Metronic Minimed yesterday.
The security and safety of our pumpers is of utmost concern to Animas. We have high levels of proprietary security measures in place for all our products, that meet and exceed industry requirements. To date, we are not aware of a single customer complaint or report claiming a security breach with our insulin pumps or wireless glucose management systems.
We are aware of Jerome Radcliffe’s study investigating security attacks on insulin pumps. We closely reviewed his study, which clearly states that the researcher was only able to “hack” into the insulin pump with knowledge of the pump and remote device’s serial numbers.
At Animas, the serial numbers of our products are considered “Personally Identifiable Information,” and as such are closely protected by our privacy policies and security. We protect or patients’ serial numbers with the same protocols we use to protect our patients’ names, social security numbers, and other personal information.
All Animas products and systems are built with encryption algorithms and proprietary radio frequency protocols designed to ensure pairing between a wireless device and pump, and to ensure the devices “speak” to one another in a secure manner. These proprietary algorithms are confirmed between the unique serial numbers of each device. (To ensure our products’ integrity and ability to prevent tampering, Animas cannot share the specific details of these protocols.)
Animas is confident that the security measures we have in place would make it extremely difficult to hack into our products utilizing third party technology.
Thank you again for allowing us to help educate our pumpers on this issue. We appreciate our customers’ trust in us and want to ensure our pumpers that we are committed to delivering the highest quality of products and services, that enhance quality of life.
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Permalink Reply by jbowler on -
I have many such systems, but I'm not sure what you are trying to prove. You made an irrelevant comment that "any computer based system is impossible to make 100% secure", I said that wasn't true and now you are asking if I have a 100% secure computer system.
The *reason* I said your statement was untrue is that people seem to be impressed by such generalisations. Physical security of an isolated computer system is a straightforward way of making it hack proof, and the one normally chosen for military applications. Many computer systems have software that can't be modified (SD cards for example) and can't be hacked because of that.
If you are asking how to make a communication between paired devices hack proof simply use a shared one use private code book. The algorithm predates computer systems although use once books are rare. Secure pairing can be reduced to an issue of physical security, and a temporary physically secure connection is adequate to share a code book given that the unknown data to be transmitted is minute (about 2kbytes for the Dexcom 7+, for example.)
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on -
I really don't get why this is such a big deal. I don't think anyone has anything to worry about. I also don't think that someone is going to hack into anyones insulin pump, it just doesn't seem like a bright idea to even research this. I don't think I could roll my eyes big enough on this one. I mean come on people, I look at this as now the FDA and our insurance companies to deny us to receive technologies like the insulin pump, and either we won't be able to have one or we will have to pay out of pocket. Really don't worry about it, no one is going to hack into your insulin pump, there is no motive and this is all just a media frenzy and the media just needs to stop all this BS.
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Permalink Reply by kim on -
and you don't mean Blood Sugar!!! i agree with you 100% Lauren. unless your significant other is trying to kill you, then that's about all there is to worry about regarding someone hacking into your insulin pump. like i stated earlier, i don't have time to worry about this type of crap. there is enough on my plate without adding some unrealistic threat to it!!
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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EXACTLY!!! We have enough on our plates... and then to pile this shit on top of it, I mean come up it's unrealistic and we don't need to be worried about something that doesn't even really matter. haha Kim now I'll be worried about my boyfriend trying to kill me :) :) :) Don't let the media get a hold of that because now they'll tell us never to date again! hahaaha
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