Re:Is an open-source pacemaker safer than closed-source?
by maxerickson on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:50PM
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He's not suggesting that people screw with a pacemaker implanted in their own body.
The suggestion is that the consequences of the source being open would be mostly beneficial (to the users of the devices), if not entirely so.
- Don't mess with your own implanted medical device. Even doctors go to other doctors when they think there's a problem
- Only someone living in a bubble thinks there are any significant number of doctors who can program
From start to finish I hated the whole premise. It's one thing to say you want to screw with open source pace makers and a whole other thing to try to convince us (yourself?) it's safer.