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Absolutely. How many smartphones, Smart TVs, old routers, etc, are out there running insecure software? A shit ton. This is insane.

• tehlike 8y ago
  There is a _huge_ business opportunity for the entrepreneurial mind. Auto update of firmware with proper monitoring and health checks as the roll out continues.
  • exikyut 8y ago
    Yes, technically; the reason it doesn't exist is that "proper monitoring" would highlight how atrocious everyone's development practices are. Oh, and this would accidentally plug all the holes "everyone" variously uses when they're found helpful... generally you want to attract military funding, not scare it away :D
    • tehlike 8y ago
      Heh, probably. I don't know if i agree on your point about companies' development practices. Basic monitoring is very simple to add. I thought what'd a very basic monitoring & release for a self driving car would look like: Below could be measured as A/B experiment - (control 1% on old release, experiment 1% on new release). 1. Number of miles driven 2. Number of user intervention. 3. Score rating (assuming users give a rating for their comfort after reach ride). 4. Number of rides completed. 5. Average/median speed driven 6. Average/median G change (like too much breaking would cause a change in G-force user is enforced to). 7. Average/median time-to-destination etc. The data is already available and collected, what's missing is a way that's plug&play for these companies to push the data and necessary dimensions and integrate them into their roll outs. You can find such metrics for almost all internet-connected device. Make a dashboard out of this, give a way to slice data, give visualization tools and a way to query it out, and this is a winner.