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Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There are pacemakers with bugs shocking hearts incorrectly and companies can't help. They're bust or don't have the copyright to the code or just won't help - buy our new product next year.

It's not difficult to imagine malicious brain implants when the users are not in control. Being open source, or rather "free software", is equally a main issue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There are pacemakers with bugs shocking hearts incorrectly, and companies can't help.

Do you have a source for that? I work with these pacemaker companies fairly frequently, and I'm not aware of this, and a quick search didn't turn up anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Karen Sandler of the Software Freedom Conservancy has a "pacemaker defibrillator" for her large heart, and has done a few talks about it. I just read that a defibrillator is not usually included as part of "pacemaker" so I may have misspoke.

Original talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE

Follow-up talk 6 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2FNqXhr4c8

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The tldr is some portion of pregnant women get a condition which makes their heart look like it needs to be shocked by the pacemakers defibrillator. This has not been accounted for in part because most women who get pacemakers defibrillator are elderly and so won't get pregnant. Besides that, testing devices on pregnant people isn't a thing (for good reason).