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What about a pacemaker? Or a car?

• octoberfranklin 11mo ago
  Cars were user-reprogrammable for a long time and the sky never fell. Requiring that the pacemaker be outside a human body in order to reprogram it seems like a very sensible solution.
• pabs3 11mo ago
  We can have both freedom and safety by requiring re-certification after modification. Like when you heavily physically modify a car then you can still drive it after the authorities decide it is safe.
• laggyluke 11mo ago
  You have a point. Being able to reprogram a pacemaker isn't enough! We should require that any devices that our lives depends on, especially devices that go inside our bodies, to be open source: not just reprogrammable, but with source code available for inspection and modification. I've been working in this industry for too long in order to trust a closed source pacemaker to be bug-free.