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Free software wouldn't protect you in a lot of these cases though. Fuel pumps could run on free software, but since you didn't install it, it could've been easi
by eksemplar 9y ago
Free software wouldn't protect you in a lot of these cases though. Fuel pumps could run on free software, but since you didn't install it, it could've been easily altered by the people who did.
Hell these days, you'd have to build the hardware yourself to make sure someone didn't put something malicious in it.
- hutzlibu 9y agoBut all of those systems get a lot of easier to access and be checked by controllers, if their base is open and not just some binary blob. Of course that applies also to the hardware.