The Internet of criminal things
The Internet of criminal things
Posted Sep 26, 2015 18:28 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: The Internet of criminal things by zack
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As I think about this thread it seems there is some underlying assumption that regulation, audit, policing, government and democracy in general are unable to solve these kinds of problems sufficiently so that we need technical measures enforced by corporations to solve them for us instead. It used to be a joke that closed, proprietary, unmodifiable software is like a car with the hood welded shut, which was meant to be a bad thing, now people are literally advocating for pulling out the welding torches. How odd.
Posted Sep 26, 2015 21:43 UTC (Sat)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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It's interesting; I've been thinking about converting my old Jeep to be electric and writing my own control software. Though, I'll be locking it down so only I can update the firmware, so I guess that's OK? ;)
The Internet of criminal things
People always did complain that those car analogies weren't that useful. I guess now we're seeing why.