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... The team's discovery - a flaw in a computer code that caused a drug pump to administer heavy overdoses - led to a recall, warnings and rewriting of the equipment's software. The discovery also illustrated a new threat behind some lifesaving medical devices.

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Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming ...

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