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Airgapping was my first instinct too, but the problem is we're dealing with state-level actors. Airgapping doesn't work with them. They're patient, well funded
by 3pt14159 9y ago
Airgapping was my first instinct too, but the problem is we're dealing with state-level actors. Airgapping doesn't work with them. They're patient, well funded organizations. Trying to rely on never having a single type of car (any of which could have a hundred thousand copies on the road) hacked is a fools errand.
We need ways of disabling autonomous devices and detecting when they get hacked, not trying to win an impossibly hard game.
- bradtemp 9y agoThe disabling system becomes another attack surface, and unless it is pretty independent, is itself disabled by a sophisticated attack. But scared as we are of external attack, allowing the government to shut off all cars is like letting Mubarak shut off the internet in Egypt. That's a bigger danger than foreign enemies in many countries.