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duban··on My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
It seems to use the play integrity API when communicating with Insulet's servers which provide a private key to the PDM/app once it was registered with the user's account. However since the Pod doesn't have access to the internet, it has no way to check the play integrity signature AFAIK, so instead it checks that the certificate that the PDM/app presents to it is issued from the cert chain that it trusts.
duban··on My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
I am not aware of any public groups to follow the progress, I have just met a few people on the Loop Zulip and have talked with them every few months whenever people have time to look into it.
duban··on My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
I’m aware of a few people working on REing the Omnipod 5. The furthest issue that I have seen is that when a PDM/Omnipod 5 app signs into your insulet id, it gets a private key from the API which is stored in the keychain (and uses SSL pinning to prevent MiTM retrieval of the private key). When pairing with the pod they exchange public keys and then a derived key from the devices private key+pods public keys, but haven’t been able to get a copy of a private key yet to make further progress.
duban··on Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
Immunotherapy saved my life, but sadly also made me an insulin dependent type 1 diabetic. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10083744 for more info about this side effect)

I think immunotherapy is great and going to save many lives, but there are still some things that need to be worked out before it's perfect.