
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The FDA's Response to the Up Arrow Infection
Two incidents in rapid succession reported by the Texas health department or the FDA anyway. So, ACL's initial response that they made three days after the second incident was the all current device users were to refrain from using the up arrow to edit treatment functions. Now we're getting serious about access control. If you don't want people to use the button, take the button off the keyboard. The key micro switch over so it's in the open position and that's only able to re enter the prescription information from scratch in the case of an accident. Beautiful. All right. I like this BSDS solution. Even better, so that now it accidentally presses the up arrow, the up arrow was required
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