Ah, paranoia... For a while I've been pointing out to people that the shit will hit the fan when we begin deploying autonomous devices. When cars drive themselves, for instance...
We can't write 100% reliable software for anything complex enough to want to bother to automate it. When the device has the capability to maim or kill us... And how soon will it be hacked? Terrorists reprogramming cars? Rival gangs? Script kiddies? If I can do it, someone else can do it too. In fact, I like the idea you propose below: We should begin counter engineering now to keep things under control, ie, > world terrorism. I think demonstrating the ability to misuse it is the best and only way to slow the introduction of such capabilities. Fear of death usually trumps greed. Cheers, Bret On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:52, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: > To quote Jeff Waugh... > > "One World, one Web, one Browser." - Microsoft promotion > "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler > > ¨One world, > Its a battle ground, > One world > We´re going to smash it down... ¨ -- Pink Floyd, ¨The dogs of war...¨ > > Have a read of these.. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/20/1714242, > http://www.grandchallenge.org > and > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/13/1933247 > > Has anybody refreshed themselves on Terminator 1,2,3 lately? > > We should begin counter engineering now to keep things under control, ie, > world terrorism. > > Thought I might scare you for a bit. > > Regards, > > Nicholas Tomlin. > [c/w asbestos suit] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
