there were always some dangerous means, that could harm people. I think the society should pay more attention at moral and ethical upbringing.The technologies get more and more potential to harm people, but these are people, not technologies who actually are dangerous.But you are very right, noone is ready to give up technocomfort to be more safe- we are happy to believe that we happily escape any difficulties
@Mitch - Development of technology have forgot to think of security measures, and now seem to pop up which is a social security threat. I think we are too late to roll back and correct our self; we are already so used to the techno world. Technology in the wrong hands will cause disaster.
Interesting idea, Lin. I was reading this morning about all kinds of possible regulatory interventions, and it did make me wonder about whether we might see a plurality of Webs or other platforms, not far down the road.
"The Internet will run our world: or rather, we'll run it, digitally and remotely, via the Web"
@Kim -- agree, interesting changes are coming. I just don't think that our Internet, or our Web, will be part of the picture. There will be a platform, just not one based on protocols designed decades ago.
I get the feeling you're right, Mitch. The creators of the technology may assume that security will be reviewed somewhere down the road: but there's no guarantee of that.
Nice way to put it Jabailo: if everything is connected, everything is a potential weapon against us. Now that doesn't mean everything is dangerous -- just that anything might become dangerous, if interfered with.
This is looking like technology that was deployed without thinking through the threat implications.
Ironically, as a society we're overly paranoid about security, seeing terrorists in every shoe. But in contemplating new technology we often swing too far in the other direction and fail to think through adequately how wrongdoers might exploit it
I was thinking about a scenario where someone takes control of Predator drones, but it's been done, larger scale, in the Jamie Foxx movie Stealth using a self-flying advanced fighter jet. Perhaps a sequel would have formations of buzzing quadcopters harassing citizens.
Then there was the fire sale scenario of Live Free Or Die Hard where a giant traffic jam was created in Washington DC by tweaking traffic lights. 10 years hence, it might actually be a giant demolition derby if we were to give up our driving privileges to Google Cars. Steven King might also update Christine to a 2019 model...
But sure, if Everything is a weapon...or Arm...are we privileged to have them, or should everything in our pocket arsenal be well-regulated?
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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