Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom

Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml – 150 points –
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Software that controls your body should always respect your freedom. This article is a recap of scandals of medical devices, like hearing aids, insulin pumps, bionic eyes, and pacemakers, and what we can learn from them. It's astonishing: you wouldn't expect these devices to be run by software in such a way that they can leave you completely helpless.

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Not if the existing software functions properly. If there's a fix in it you need then sure, once the vendor has tested and approved it you should migrate.

Depends if it is internet enabled (which most are now a days). If that patch is for a 0fay exploit I don't want ransomeware for pacemakers.

I think you're making a good case against an Internet enabled pacemaker ;-)