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5440 commented on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks   flipperzero.one... · Posted by u/thatxliner
5440 · 2 years ago
My son was just arrested for using this in his hacking club at high school. Be careful if you have kids with one. According to witnesses in the room, he was showing it to kids in his hacking club and they all thought it was just turning off Apple phones in the classrooom. Apparently, it turned off phones including several teachers in adjoining classrooms. Anyways. The police came to the school and arrested him and are threatening him/us with federal crimes. They also executed a search warrant in our house and took all electronics. Its been a little traumatising to say the least.
5440 commented on First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval   digialps.com/the-first-ai... · Posted by u/alimehdi242
pc86 · 2 years ago
It's an appliance with huge gaping security flaws that its very creator says you should use under approximately no circumstances.

> For what it's worth, the "XP" OS is often licensed and supported for well longer than a consumer SKU. IIRC microsoft provided support and security updates for embedded/appliance applications until 2019!

You're 100% right but that still means the thing has been sitting around for half a decade with no security updates whatsoever.

There is a fine line between stability and simply being a miser and refusing to update things within a reasonable period of time. Healthcare, especially corporate healthcare run by people other than physicians, is far to much on the miser end of the spectrum.

5440 · 2 years ago
I recommend you all read the 2023 FDA cybersecurity expectations before commenting. https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download

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5440 commented on Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests   questdb.io/blog/fuzz-test... · Posted by u/bluestreak
5440 · 2 years ago
For those of you in FDA regulated devices, my clients started receiving FDA NSE letters for not performing fuzz testing. For example, "Though you have provided penetration testing, it does not appear that you have addressed the other items identified such as static and dynamic code analysis, malformed input (fuzz) testing, or vulnerability scanning. This testing is necessary to assess the effectiveness of the cybersecurity controls implemented and to determine whether the residual risk of your device is acceptable."
5440 commented on Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits   theregister.com/2023/06/2... · Posted by u/Bender
mabbo · 2 years ago
These are exactly the kind of immigrants any country should be desperate to have.

The majority of costs a person will typically have on a country are their initial K-12 education, and their health care costs later in life. Immigrants like these will never cost the government that first major cost.

At the same time, they are far more likely to have higher than median salaries when employed. That means higher taxes paid.

So from a purely economic point of view, an H-1B immigrant is a perfect profit center for government taxes.

Meanwhile a Canadian who gets their K-12 education here, gets a highly government subsidized post-secondary degree, then moves to the USA to work and pay taxes there is a huge loss, economically.

5440 · 2 years ago
Man this applies to me. I got an bioengineering degree and had to go to the US to find work. I started at $30K in the US and now I'm up to over $350K/yr. Would love to come back to Canada but the horrible expereince of applying for over 100 jobs and no interviews was disheartening.
5440 commented on Processing medical images at scale on the cloud   tweag.io/blog/2023-04-20-... · Posted by u/harporoeder
southernplaces7 · 3 years ago
Because of course there's so little to worry about with storing vast reams of medical data from real people in cloud systems (that surely never get breached) to be accessed by AIs that surely will never create data privacy problems from all the ML vacuuming they rely on....
5440 · 3 years ago
I'm a regulatory consultant and I am currently submitting at least 5-10 510ks/DeNovos per week to FDA for AI/ML devices for a variety of companies. I can't imagine the actual throughput from companies as I am just one person out of many consultants out there. 95% of the software devices I edit and submit are hosting their databases on AWS. Essentially they transer the DICOM images to AWS and then run their algorithms against the data and then present the indications to the physcian. These run the range of CT/MRI/Ultrasound/pathology slides/genomic sequencing. Like I said, most of the databases are on AWS. A few are on Azure and a few european companies are on Orange.

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KarmaCake day243February 4, 2019View Original