Bureaucracy Inhibits Conficker Repairs on Medical Devices CNET has a story about how some government regulations caused hospitals that had “critical medical devices” infected by the Conficker worm to wait for 90 days before any modifications could be done. Wow.
The devices were used in hospitals to allow doctors to view and manipulate high-intensity scans like MRIs and were often found in or near intensive care unit facilities, connected to local area networks with other critical medical devices. "They should have never, ever been connected to the Internet," Joffe said.
Bureaucracy Inhibits Conficker Repairs on Medical Devices 
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