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is this the future of self driving cars?
My prediction: Ransomware hits self-driving cars.
You're locked in the car until you Venmo the bad guys some credits.
To encourage compliance, the stereo starts playing the sound of running water.
Someone also seems to have hacked this post on twitter... it's not loading
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I’ve had this worry for years of a state level attack via network connected FSD cars. But I’m hardly alone, it was shown in a Fast and Furious movie, so people are thinking of it.
First mention of using driverless vehicles as weapons I recall was Daemon by Daniel Suarez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
is this the future of self driving cars?
I think you are right. I think the unknowns are, how tiny will the script be that commands all the cars into a lake and will it be a cloud hack or a local broadcast hack?
is this the future of self driving cars?
is this the future of self driving cars?
What does "all available" mean in this context? YandexTaxi operates in 1000+ cities and is connected to 700,000 drivers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve had this worry for years of a state level attack via network connected FSD cars. But I’m hardly alone, it was shown in a Fast and Furious movie, so people are thinking of it.
First mention of using driverless vehicles as weapons I recall was Daemon by Daniel Suarez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
I forgot if any of the IRobot short stories used the concept - if they do they would predate the movie.
This is what happens when optimists win and the realists are cut out of the conversation. As a taxi service, I believe I would want to know if I'm about to have a shortage of taxis in any one area of town, and I'd better only have a concentration in one area of town for an event the entire world is talking about, like a reunion tour or a championship game. Even with the hack, the moment all of the taxis started conve…
It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes. This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add safeguards to prevent such a thing now, but if they ran the company preparing for every possible way things could go wrong, they’d get absolutely nothing done.
All your customers thinking your app isn't secure any more isn't "low pain".
This is what happens when optimists win and the realists are cut out of the conversation. As a taxi service, I believe I would want to know if I'm about to have a shortage of taxis in any one area of town, and I'd better only have a concentration in one area of town for an event the entire world is talking about, like a reunion tour or a championship game. Even with the hack, the moment all of the taxis started conve…
It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes. This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add safeguards to prevent such a thing now, but if they ran the company preparing for every possible way things could go wrong, they’d get absolutely nothing done.