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</o:p></span><o:p></o:p> <span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span>What
troubles me, is why is medical technology even worse? For
example, I have an insulin pump (artificial pancreas) because
I’m a type 1 diabetic<span style="color:#1F497D">…</span> So,
their basically happy to let me make mistakes and destroy my
life, as long as they aren’t providing anything that would
expose them to any risk<span style="color:#1F497D">…</span>
Brent Allsop</p>
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Medical technology as a field has rarely cared about patient
desires, since patients are not their customers - health care
professionals and instutitons are. And their mis-handling of
security of implants show that they are pretty unaware of modern
software and security thinking: they have not needed to keep up,
since most of the functionality is pretty simple (it is the delivery
that is nontrivial). <br>
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On 19/11/2012 19:24, spike wrote:<br>
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liability system is holding us back in so many ways Brent,
not only in your specific case. If cars were just being
invented today rather than in the late 1800s, they would
be functionally illegal.</span></p>
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It goes both ways. Bruce Schneier has argued that if we held
software makers liable for what their software did, we would have
far more secure and safe software. Yes, we would likely have missed
out on innovation, but we would not be in the house-of-cards mess we
are in right now. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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