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These things aren't able to follow instructions, target people, etc. Go ahead and tell me what we will actually do when these things appear. You can poo-pooh

These things aren't able to follow instructions, target people, etc. Go ahead and tell me what we will actually do when these things appear. You can poo-pooh security through obscurity but we're all relying on the "infeasibility" of defeating various systems. Just as one example, reputational attacks followed systematically without rest or hesitation can subvert entire communities and make them not trust each other. You only don't realize what dedicated technology can do to subvert human systems because you haven't had to face it yet. If every time you launched your startup, an automated process would find, hack in and bring your network down or make a thousand sleeper accounts which will bring it down later, when you couldn't rely on them "just not finding you long enough for you to secure your network", then you'd have a different attitude.

trhway 11y ago
there is a difference between doomsday declaration on every technological advancement and just reasonable basic safety measures. Specifically for drones - having millions of them in the sky would naturally lead to 2 things - automated traffic control with ground and airborne AESA radar systems that even military would envy (after all an Aegis destroyer have to track only several hundreds objects simultaneously where is drone traffic control over Bay Area would have to track a million) and the second thing - "license plate transponders" similar to car. Any drone without registered transponder will be taken off the sky by a police drone similar like an unregistered car from highway today. So, yes, somebody would use the drones for crimes like today they can use planes or cars. So what? The drone flight will be recorded in radar and various visual systems. And like in any other case investigation will trace the stuff back to perpetrators. And sometimes not successfully. And yes, machine guns plus cars did produce the Dillinger gang and the like for some short time. And it resulted in FBI. The way of progress...
- zkhalique 11y ago
  So what? So right now when they use planes and cars you can see who was driving it, who made the car, who purchased it. With drones, you won't be able to see any of that. The criminals who programmed the drones would be free from the law. And not only that, the "police drone" as you say might arrive too late, the drone might already have shot up some people. And then there's always the possibility that despite your best efforts, some drones are gonna fall from the sky on people.

trhway 11y ago

there is a difference between doomsday declaration on every technological advancement and just reasonable basic safety measures. Specifically for drones - having millions of them in the sky would naturally lead to 2 things - automated traffic control with ground and airborne AESA radar systems that even military would envy (after all an Aegis destroyer have to track only several hundreds objects simultaneously where is drone traffic control over Bay Area would have to track a million) and the second thing - "license plate transponders" similar to car. Any drone without registered transponder will be taken off the sky by a police drone similar like an unregistered car from highway today. So, yes, somebody would use the drones for crimes like today they can use planes or cars. So what? The drone flight will be recorded in radar and various visual systems. And like in any other case investigation will trace the stuff back to perpetrators. And sometimes not successfully. And yes, machine guns plus cars did produce the Dillinger gang and the like for some short time. And it resulted in FBI. The way of progress...

zkhalique 11y ago
So what? So right now when they use planes and cars you can see who was driving it, who made the car, who purchased it. With drones, you won't be able to see any of that. The criminals who programmed the drones would be free from the law. And not only that, the "police drone" as you say might arrive too late, the drone might already have shot up some people. And then there's always the possibility that despite your best efforts, some drones are gonna fall from the sky on people.