Can You Audit the Software that Goes in Your Body?

From Boing Boing:

The Software Freedom Law Center's latest white-paper, "Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices," examines the strange circumstances around pacemakers and other implanted medical devices. Regulators like the FDA inspect the hardware designs for these devices in great detail, but the crucial software that runs the devices is a closed book -- a proprietary secret that's only ever called in for examination when the devices start to crash, with disastrous circumstances.

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