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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I can't with this article... there's a very legitimate argument to be made here, but instead they are whining that stuff stopped working after an iOS update. If you're running something life-critical you do not install every single update the moment it comes out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I couldn't disagree more with you. If you are running something REAL life critical the moment there is a patch you install it and deploy as fast as possible. And if it contains any severe patch it is even the vendor who recalls all the equipment with service bulletin and advisory letters.

With life critical you don't wait the bug to appear because It maybe too late to avoid deadly consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Then we disagree. Think about it, you're patching the OS so what you now have is an untested configuration, and you've replaced a working system to get there, on the theory that you might be preventing an unknown bug in the future.

In one instance the vendor even explicitly recommends disabling OS updates until they have tested them.

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