> It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely contr

> It's like if "automobiles" all had cell modems in them, ran some minimum viable functionality Swiss cheese security embedded software, could be remotely controlled from the Internet, and the only things keeping mass destruction at bay is the lack of documentation and the fact that individual humans generally don't want to hurt one another. uh, maybe I need a different example. And nobody outside of Hacker News cares about any of that. All they care about is getting from point A to point B, never mind that ~1,300,000 people are killed by by crashes every year and that we're poisoning our planet with them[1]. It's possible that I chose them as an example deliberately and cynically, as opposed to pedantically. --- [1] Both of which are far more pressing concerns than some Martian super-hacker pwning my car, but it's all worth the convenience of not having to get into a bus, or on a train.