Tailpipe emmission standards

Posted Dec 3, 2013 15:53 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Tailpipe emmission standards by rriggs
Parent article: Geer: Trends in cyber security

No, because the Feds should not be given a trivial cover under which to compromise people's systems.

Tailpipe emmission standards

Posted Dec 9, 2013 1:29 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Why would the Feds *want* to compromise someone's emission control systems? Some bizarre pro-pollution bias?

Tailpipe emmission standards

Posted Dec 9, 2013 1:33 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

I was referring to the unpacking of the analogy back into the computer space, rather than directly to the analogy. (Of course, the reason to compromise the ECS is so that you can have them fail an emissions spot-check and have their vehicle gone over by an particularly "observant" policeman.)