I think the risk is minimal at this point. The reason I say so? The researchers themselves either wear one or would get one despite knowing of this potential for a security breach.
OMG why would people do this?!? they could kill someone with this? its not like a computer virus where your destroying data or a computer. This is really upsetting my 17 yo is on a pump. It would kill me to know that someone had done this to her. 
I fiugre if someone really wants to kill you, they will find a way - there are plenty of other ways besides a pump. I am sure the chances are pretty sliim of it happening.
Of course this is why the jewel pump will never be.
Lathump once posted on another board about a movie or TV show she saw - the person somehow swapped out a woman’s real pump and put poison or something in the cartridge of the replacement one and killed her.
I agree the chances are slim but it may be that messing with someone’s pump would be a good way to do it and not be discovered? Would there be some type of trail left behind to discover the killer?
I would think that would be hard to discover - I haven’t seen that one on CSI or Criminal Minds yet. I would guess that the dosing would be on the pump but how would they know if you made a mistake or someone else did it.
Thats why here they can only use locked bluetooth - the ping was getting interference from everythign from heart rate monitors to commercial radio…
So Dee is the Ping bluetooth in NZ then?
That is interesting. I rarely used the remote so I didn’t notice interference from anything.
Ha! I just told someone (not here) that I’d really be more concerned that if I were in an accident, and they had to cut my clothes off, that the ER would lose my transmitter by not seeing it. I don’t think the warranty would cover that, and who knows if the hospital would take responsibility.
In my other post to you, I wrote “This just reinforces my thoughts, that I will NEVER use a pump.” I think that if I really wanted to pump, the article wouldn’t scare me away. Or maybe I’m just too tired to think straight.
Trisha
I smell a mystery novel with a PWD being chased by sugar fairies who want to hack his/her pump 
Don’t forget though, that when we used the navi, that was also bluetooth for uploading to the pc, supposedly locked.
Trisha
We still can only get the Animas 2020, last I heard was that they were not going to release the Ping here. We have 2 pumps availabe with a blue tooth remote, the Roche Combo and the Dana.
If I kill my meter I have to get a new meter sent out with the blue tooth preprogrammed, it’s paired up so that it only can ‘talk’ to one thing. It’s pretty good, and means that I don’t get any issues with interference from other transmitting devices.
The frequencies they use are mostly fine in the US - it’s just in non USA parts of the worls, those frequencies may already be allocated for use by other users… you can tell it was designed by people in the US, and since thats fine in the US, they didn’t research how the rest of the world works!