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No, there is always a programmer, a sysadmin or an operator who is in control of a program. Software cannot deploy and maintain themselves. It's possible to co
by user5994461 9y ago
No, there is always a programmer, a sysadmin or an operator who is in control of a program. Software cannot deploy and maintain themselves.
It's possible to completely cut access to a system, for example you lose the only SSH key. It would continue to run and service users, but it is inoperable on an operational point of view.
- boznz 9y agoWhat about a shared key (like launching a nuke) so long as everyone in the key-list distrusts each other wouldn't something like that work ? (Totally outside my technical comfort zone here so forgive stupidity!)
- kobeya 9y agoThis is incorrect. Research homomorphic encryption sometime. It’s very inefficient though.