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FDA: Software Failure Behind 24% of Last Year's Medical Device Recalls
chicksdaddy writes "Software failures were behind 24 percent of all the medical device recalls in 2011, according to data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL). The absence of solid architecture and 'principled engineering practices' in software development affects a wide range of medical devices, with potentially life-threatening consequences, the FDA warned. In response, FDA told Threatpost that it is developing tools to disassemble and test medical device software and locate security problems and weak design."
It seems like that should be of even more concern.
Hiding the source code is not an effective way to prevent hacking, if it were my Windows box wouldn't need a hardware firewall, a software firewall, 3rd party antivirus software, and regular sweeps initiated from a different OS.
In a distopian novel, the government would do this so that they could turn off your heart, if you said anything out of turn.
It wouldn't work on politicians or lawyers. They don't have hearts.