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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 9 months ago

Yep, there's already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under..."

Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Or it just shuts off because it can't connect to the company servers any more.

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