US security agency reports that China-made hospital patient monitors contain a backdoor that sends confidential monitoring data to a third-party university.
This isn’t just a privacy issue, the CVEs noted there is a way to remotely execute code. So maybe you’re in the hospital, the government sees your name and vitals through their backdoor, search and find on social media that you’ve been saying some things they don’t like, then remotely crash or disable your heart monitor when your vitals start looking funny and the medical staff at the hospital aren’t notified…
People focusing on things like this instead of the government. If you want secure monitors the focus should be on laws that protect privacy, not just calling out companies that violate privacy.
Yeah, I don’t care if China knows what my heartbeat was like
This isn’t just a privacy issue, the CVEs noted there is a way to remotely execute code. So maybe you’re in the hospital, the government sees your name and vitals through their backdoor, search and find on social media that you’ve been saying some things they don’t like, then remotely crash or disable your heart monitor when your vitals start looking funny and the medical staff at the hospital aren’t notified…
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Yeah bro, they’re gonna do so much with the info lmao
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I suppose if you’re using them that often they could do that, but they’d probably just deny your benefits even without the extra data.
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There’s bigger problems than medical monitors collecting data. Like fascism. And I’d rather have the spying monitor than no monitor at all.
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Fools will be fools. You cannot save them all.
People focusing on things like this instead of the government. If you want secure monitors the focus should be on laws that protect privacy, not just calling out companies that violate privacy.