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> it's irresponsible for non-medical researchers to not only pursue, but also disseminate, these jailbreaks. A good portion of medical device RnD is related to creating technology that is hard to misuse and result in accidental death, and I just don't see that here. This is simply wrong, both from a user perspective and a general research perspective. Positioning a jailbreak like this as a solution to general vent sh…
Perhaps this is aimed at non-American healthcare systems, but I have not seen a single report of American hospitals running out of ventilators, let alone BiPaP machines. In order for this to be a responsible hack — used under the guidance of medical professionals — we would need to have run out of both. If anything, at least in the American context, I'm more worried about running out of the sedative necessary for ven…
Are you really not going to just google "USA ventilator shortage"?
Also BiPaP machines require the same hack as CPAP machines. And of course a further hack for invasive intubation (which ventilators can do out of the box), though you aren't going to do that to your nightstand CPAP machine either.
Anyways, rest assured that the few people who can be bothered to jailbreak their CPAP machine are not the same kind of people who drink their koi pond cleaner. I think this kind of fear about people hacking their gadgets is misplaced.
It also reeks of what I can only register as this weird "doc knows best" subservience to the medical system. This is probably the weirdest meme I see on HN. And, as people upstream point out, nobody out there is paying attention to your insulin pump or CPAP machine settings. They just leave it on whatever default setting. It's all entirely on you to do the research to improve things for you.