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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by fonky on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:24AM (#33966868)
> Having a bricked eye implant doesn't just rob you of your sight – many Argus users experience crippling vertigo and other side effects of nonfunctional implants. The company has promised to "do our best to provide virtual support" to people whose Argus implants fail – but no more parts and no more patches.

How can it be legal to do this to people, couldn't the implants just keep working with the existing firmware? Why did the company have to deliberately brick them all?

This is absolutely horrifying.

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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by AgentME on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:14AM (#33968386)
The article doesn't say that the company bricked all the devices. It's that when the devices break, the company isn't offering to fix them.
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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by Semaphor on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:57AM (#33967139)
Check the other comment for a proper link, and my discussion link. This is very misleading.
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