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It's a bit like the people raving that the sky will fall when cars are all internet connected because they will vulnerable to hacking but completely ignoring th
by drcross 9y ago
It's a bit like the people raving that the sky will fall when cars are all internet connected because they will vulnerable to hacking but completely ignoring that you could cause far more damage with a pallet of bricks being thrown off a motorway bridge, which generally doesn't ever happen.
- GavinMcG 9y agoTo be fair, throwing a pallet of bricks off a bridge wouldn't cause as much damage as causing 1% of an area's cars to crash, and it's a crime you actually have to be on site for. People are quite reasonably more afraid of attack vectors that can affect huge numbers of people all at once, especially when the attacker could be anywhere in the world. One obvious example of why that's reasonable is the recent ransomware – sure, you've always been able to easily extort $300 from someone, but now you can take money from a lot of people, and not get caught.
- digi_owl 9y agoHacking, witchcraft, radioactivity. They all have in common that they are something you can't see, hear, or smell coming at you. Thus they are anxiety inducing...
- mannykannot 9y agoIn two of those cases, some level of anxiety is justifiable.
- optimuspaul 9y agoWitchcraft and Radioactivity right?
- marcosdumay 9y agoWell, probably. Unless you are stupid enough to plug your car to the internet.
- fao_ 9y agoRadioactivity is probable, but not likely. Locally we were advised not to eat sheep for about a decade because of ~an incident~ to do with radioactive material. Hacking is something that is getting more and more likely by the day. First, WannaCry infects the world over and knocks out a hospital system. What's next? Pacemakers going offline? Insulin pumps being hacked? Hell, cars can already be hacked from a distance, internet connected cars aren't raising a risk factor by much, aside from it lengthening the distance at which you can do the hack.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoDo you remember that time a certain governor got in hot water for instructing that a "traffic study" which involved closing lanes be conducted on a particularly congested bridge. Now imagine that on every bridge. It only takes one car to bottle up a lane.
- KGIII 9y agoInteresting that you mention that. I modeled traffic. Give me a two way radio, a dozen cars, and time to monitor the traffic and I can probably bring most any large urban area's traffic throughput to a crawl.
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- ceejayoz 9y agoI suspect if you could throw bricks off bridges remotely from Russia with a few keystrokes it'd be more common.
- jfrankamp 9y agoI'd take a pallet of bricks any day over the aftermath of a signing key and OTA package update compromise. I'm not worried about one car getting hacked, that's thinking too small.
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