Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by combatentropy 3700 days ago
> they included proper instructions in their documentation, advising companies to whitelist Merge Hemo's folders in order to prevent crashes from happening, so it seems that the whole incident was nothing more than an oversight on the medical unit's side.

And the hospital included full instructions to the software company on how to properly perform a heart transplant, so they were baffled why the programmer just let his teammate die of heart failure.

Come on, this kind of stuff should be a zero-configuration hardware-based black box, with its own buttons, screen, etc. --- not something that needs to be (or even can be) connected to something outside the vendor's total control.