[LINK] Who wrote the code that shocks us?

[Darrell Burkey]

On 09/03/12, Stephen Wilson  <swilson at lockstep.com.au> wrote:

> I called myself a software engineer for 10 years or so. I worked on real 
> time control software for implantable defibrillators. Ultra high 
> reliability code, and now when I read with disbelief about malware 
> getting into implantable defibs (because they run on Windows or 
> somesuch) I realie we wrote high security code at the same time. But 
> that's a story for another day ...
> 
> 
One of the keynote speakers at LinuxConf 2012, Gnome Executive Director Karen Sandler, gave a fascinating talk about her quest to find out what software was operating her implanted defibrillator and if she had any rights regarding access to it. She made some very interesting points that really made me think about all the software we depend on. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE

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Australian National University
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