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Karen Sandler of the Software Freedom Conservancy delivered a keynote presentation last week at linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA) in Sydney, Australia. Specifically she spoke about her multi-year odyssey to try to gain access to the source code for the pacemaker attached to her heart and upon which her life currently depends. Non-free software is having an increasingly (negative) impact on society as people entrust more of their lives to it. That software is found in an increasing number of places, both high and low, as all kinds of devices start to run fully networked microcomputers.
In her first LCA keynote 6 years ago, Karen first told the people of LCA about her heart condition and the defibrillator that she needed to have implanted. This year she described her continued quest to receive the source code for the software running in her defibrillator, and how far she has been able to get in obtaining the source code that she's been requesting for over a decade now.
Source : Karen Sandler Delivered Keynote at Linux.conf.au
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:24AM
I don't know about the hospitals you've visited, but my wife was accessed in the ER more than once, and it was quite necessary that she not wait for being admitted, or worse, appointment with the cardiologist. It would have been a lot better if the EMTs could have read the device and, if nothing else, transmitted it on ahead to the ER. They really need to be able to do that.
As for wireless connection...I was accepting an earlier post that said the current devices had that kind of connection. The only kind I've seen involves placing the reader over the device, and that's the way it should be done. And passwords, etc., are a bad idea.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.