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On Monday 08 July 2002 22:11, you wrote:
Hopefully medical devices are equally hard to reprogram "silently" - the SMC box requires administrator authentication to reprogram it for example.
GIven that 4% of the population are diabetic, and therefore may be expoected in due course to carry a meter... 4% of programmers will be diabetic, and also 4% of evil psychopathic black hat crackers with a grudge against society which might be applied against any system they saw as surveillance of them. There are certainly (odd and probably incapable of programming) people who persistently lie unconvincingly about their use of testing and treatments, I don't know why since nobody else is going to suffer, and teh temptation to porgram a series of normal tests into their meter might well take over from the writing of pseudo random results in the normal range into a paper diary. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.