It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by EpicEng on Friday May 02, 2014 @03:24AM (#7684478)

I think you have to always assume that people can't be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to lives of others. The FDA has to employ policies which gives us a reasonable confidence that a vendor's device/test/whatever is safe and effective.

Disclaimer: I have worked on FDA cleared medical devices my entire career.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by dllthomas on Friday May 02, 2014 @12:45PM (#7686729)

I think most of the time you can trust people to do the right thing when it comes to the lives of others, when the right thing is sufficiently clear, when the fact that it involves the lives of others is sufficiently salient, and when there are not enormous incentives to do otherwise.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by EpicEng on Friday May 02, 2014 @02:53PM (#7687413)

I'm not sure you took my meaning. Even if what you say is true, a regulating body must view everyone with skepticism. They have to walk into an audit/filing review with a "prove it to me" attitude else risk doing real harm to people.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by dllthomas on Friday May 02, 2014 @03:15PM (#7687550)

I don't know that that's wrong. The two views are certainly compatible.

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