[kwlug-disc] One more case for owning tech

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

I remember listening to a podcast about the bionic eyes earlier in 2022.

https://shows.acast.com/the-tortoise-podcast/episodes/into-the-dark-the-broken-promise-of-a-bionic-eye

Absolutely terrifying to imagine the position that your vision is 
basically routed through the health of a single corporation.


Karen Sandler, of Software Freedom Conservancy, talked about a similar 
concern with her pacemaker a decade ago and her efforts to access its 
source code:

https://theoutline.com/post/1398/why-can-t-karen-sandler-get-the-source-code-for-her-pacemaker

Which again is absolutely terrifying! You could have a device that can 
shock your heart, saving your life, but only a single corporation really 
knows now it works. And everyone else is specifically disallowed from 
understanding it.

Terrifying.


Andrew


On 2022-12-20 02:39, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
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