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>capitalism and technology don't have unintended consequences is intellectually dishonest Well argued. I respect that line of thought but I don't think I'm bei

• tmuir 10y ago
  Where there is nuclear power, there is a nuclear bomb. Where there is air travel, there are hijackings. Where there are smartphones, there are intelligence agencies vacuuming up their data. Where there is easy access to your own financial information, there is easy access to other's financial information. Where there is instant access to the worlds information, there is instant access to easy marks for charlatans and con artists. For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction. For every feature, there is an attack vector.
  • _andromeda_ 10y ago
    People die on roads everyday. Should we stop using vehicles?
    • tmuir 10y ago
      That's moving the goal post. My point is that as technology marches on, unintended consequences are right behind it. What will be the unintended consequence of drones? Or the power grid connected to the internet, or driverless cars? Just imagine if someone is able to spread a computer virus to driverless cars once they are ubiquitous. Recent history has shown us that the auto industry is laughably bad at computer security. This is a bedrock principle of computer security: no useful system can be 100% secure, because then even the intended user would be kept out.