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Just wait 'til someone finds a zero day for Otis equipment that lets you turn an elevator into a remote control assassination tool. Facial recognition is good e
by olefoo 12y ago
Just wait 'til someone finds a zero day for Otis equipment that lets you turn an elevator into a remote control assassination tool. Facial recognition is good enough that if you had the right systems in play you could automate the whole kill chain from identification to placement to action.
And here's the thing; it's a tool that's most effective against the midlist, the strivers, the up and coming execs and entrepreneurs who can't afford a real security detail yet. If you start hearing a lot of stories about promising young execs dying by weird household and office mishaps that could involve automated machinery ( like burned to death by scalding water from a dishwasher, electrocutions, garage doors closing at inopportune moments or such.)... you might be seeing traces of an organized campaign.
Just something to think about next time you step into a hotel elevator...
- pdkl95 12y ago> someone finds a zero day for Otis equipment that lets you turn an elevator... I'm reminded of the EE-vs-CS joke about how to design a toaster[1]. Engineering-major rivalries aside, I've always liked it for its caution against over-engineering. For some things - such as elevators - we hit "good enough" a long time ago. I wonder if "non-programmability" will become a popular feature in the future, specifically to avoid these risks. Using non-Turing Complete "Little Languages"[2] or hardware that's fixed to a single circuit could help. Unfortunately, it's probably too late; we spent the last few decades putting CPUs into everything, and now we get to slowly find out how many security holes that additional complexity left us with. [1] http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LittleLanguage http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LittleLanguage