Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
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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.

  • DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    63·
    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.