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

  • @thelittleblackbird
    -1•1 year ago

    Yes you do,

    Configuration control is a max in this world and you don’t have the control/ability/power to decide which patches go in or stay out. The vendor, the person who has all the power and knowledge, is the one who decides.

    You can loose all your certifications or being held liable for any problem due to that policy.

    Not even red hat (certainly not a life critical system) allows a different level of patches/state out of their approved ones