Reply to post: Can that even happen?

Imagine you're having a CT scan and malware alters the radiation levels – it's doable

Christian Berger

Can that even happen?

I mean an X-Ray CT needs a certain range of radiation power, after all the stronger your source is the more expensive it will be. Shouldn't there be hardware saveguards in place to keep the (moderately expensive) X-Ray tube from being overloaded? I mean every CRT TV has internal overvoltage and overcurrent protection to make sure the TV turns off immediately in case the CRT is operated out of spec.

It seems to me that this could just be some cheap alarmism to attract attention. Just like we had with the guy who claimed that running your own firmware on a printer would cause fires.

Obviously though you should never run any part of that equipment, not even the GUI, on unhardened Windows.

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