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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7492853

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.

  •  NiklzNDimz   ( @NiklzNDimz@beehaw.org ) 
    3•8 months ago

    Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.

    I have no idea how people who aren’t tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.