The Hacker Who's Hacking Ventilators to Save Lives

CYBER

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Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It’s a tale as old as our digital era: Tech enthusiasts wanting to repair their devices without the authorization of the company that makes them. Apple, for example, is notoriously awful at allowing users access to easy fixes of iPhones or Macbooks and instead offers expensive options with one of its “geniuses.” And like everything in our society, the current pandemic has exposed these right to repairs practises for what they are: Ridiculous. Our Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler is here to tell us about a Polish hacker who is saving ventilators.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.7	It's a unit system.
0:13.1	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.1	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle One.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:24.8	It's a tale as old as our digital era.
0:27.7	Tech enthusiasts wanting to repair their devices
0:29.7	without the authorization of the company that makes them.
0:32.7	Apple, for example, is notoriously awful
0:34.8	at allowing users access to easy fixes of iPhones or Macbooks,
0:38.3	and instead offers expensive options with one of its geniuses.
0:42.3	Speaking of iPhones, those new iPhones, turns out they're very expensive to fix.
0:47.3	Replacing the screen on the iPhone 10R will cost $199.
0:53.3	And like everything in our society, the current pandemic has exposed these rights
0:56.6	to repair practices for what they are.
0:59.1	Ridiculous.
1:00.7	Our motherboard EIC, Jason Kebler, is here to tell us about a Polish hacker who's saving
1:04.9	ventilators.
1:06.3	I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.
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