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by gmueckl
2596 days ago
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You neglect the scale of the damage done in the various crimes. Yes, the person giving the command is tesponsibke, but law enforcement also includes crime prevention. This means keeping the most terrible crime supporting stuff out of the hands of the people (guns, anyone?) and dissuading people from doing bad things. A network commected computer rarely leads to more than deleted files and leaked data elsewhere. In the hands of capable, well funded hackers, devastating damage could be done to infrastructure these days, but few actors are interested in that and they mostly exist in a space where conventional law enforcement is powerless. An autonomous roving robot that could be patched to turn into a murderbot is facilitating crimes of a completely different magnitude. There will be political will to rein that in as soon as the possibility becomes real. This will have an effect on self driving cars as well: these will be locked down completely, mostly by political mandate. And the cause will be reckless hackers building uncertified firmware that is either of low/unproven quality or capable of breaking the law on request in some reckless form or other. |
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