Progress inevitable. More enforcement vs. abuse better than luddite paranoia.

Posted Jul 19, 2007 13:01 UTC (Thu) by tbrownaw (guest, #45457)
In reply to: Progress inevitable. More enforcement vs. abuse better than luddite paranoia. by InnateTech
Parent article: A green light for free-software defined radio?

Is this really a good idea? These *WILL* end up installed in computers, attached to the internet. And since standard operating systems can't be considered secure in such a hostile environment, should there really be a way that viruses/worms/etc can arbitrarily chew up (possibly imortant) airwaves?

Software defined radio sounds very nice... but malware defined radio could be pretty bad. How do we get one without the other, given the insecure OSes and non-security-concious users that we have?