>Should we just stop using computers? Laptops and buildings are a necessity, while cars with wireless modems and always on internet connections are not. All th

>Should we just stop using computers? Laptops and buildings are a necessity, while cars with wireless modems and always on internet connections are not. All the usecases are solvable with Apple/Android/Car with infotainment serving as a dumb terminal, without any connection to anything important in a car. Since we already always have government surveillance devices on us (mobile phones) why add additional ones, which have the ability to crush us into oncoming traffic? Cars also had perfectly functional navigation with SD cards. >"over the air" security patches to laptops? Yes. Over the air security patches are a very very bad thing. The fact that this issue still hasn't been solved is a disgrace, with all the formal verification advances. Still laptops are a necessity, and can't kill us directly. >State actors can destroy buildings, That's not very plausibly deniable method. Buildings don't collapse or blow up by themselves. It leaves lots of material evidence of foul play. >with a gun or a poison or whatever. Not if they want to avoid suspicions and make it look like it was something natural, which is almost all the time. >murdering people is an incredibly low risk threat. Not if you are an activist and are up against an authoritarian regime, which can even follow you abroad. There is also surveillance you can't turn off like you can with a phone -- i.e. you can't talk with people in a car about anything important.