• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Mitchā€™s sister in law died in a Tesla.

    Mitch Endorses Trump.

    Trump meets with Elon Musk.

    Do I have the timeline correct?

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      4 months ago

      theoretically it should be possible to remotely control a tesla. Iā€™m not saying its murder, but did anyone check?

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        The great thing about software is it can be programmed to leave no evidence.

        ā€œThe log says self driving was offā€

        ā€œThe log says the computer controlled doors were unlockedā€

        Who wrote that log? Yeah.

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        This is one of the reasons I am hesitant to get any ā€œdigital carā€. Iā€™ve read that government has backdoors to turn off engine or otherwise control cars.

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          The real threat is foreign bad actors. Thereā€™s a global database that maps all VINs.

          How many Americans have connected cars? How many are in garages? How many will not smell the exhaust before it kills them when every car in the country is started one night?

          Thatā€™s WMD

          Source: I used to meet with the CISOs of all the global auto manufacturers annually. If youā€™re a light sleeper, donā€™t work in infosec.

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            interesting idea for what really amounts to a terrorist attack. any others? i figure you may have some other cool ones

            personally, iā€™m more scared of our government in most cases. of course, foreign bad actors can and will do damage but over the long term the government, should it morph into something a bit more authoritarian than it is today, would have much more incentive and capability to do harmful things

            i remember there was some leak nearly a decade ago already that showed NSA can access all smart TVs. some TVs even have microphones so that they can listen to whatā€™s going on in your living room. Makes you wonder if Orwell was a time traveler

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              I was a pretty big punk rock anarchist conspiracy theorist from my preteens through my early 20s. Now I work in the field. IMHO the USā€™ version (not the GOPā€™s) of world order, is the least scary. And with these psychos threatening murder and shit, the SOTU rebuttal about knee deep in bloodā€¦ Iā€™ve come to accept whatever dumb shit I or anyone I know is doing online, the govt doesnā€™t give a shit. But as a FOSS nerd and EFF-donating privacy advocate, I feel you. My real fear is bad actors leveraging and extorting people.

              As far as other examplesā€¦ Just imagine every single thing you know is connected, is under attack 100% of every day in every direction. Way before the current tension, the US has been in cyber warfare with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. Right now theyā€™re all trying to steal each otherā€™s classified data. Some off the books guys might be actively trying to meltdown a nuclear plant. The world is your oyster. Whatever you can imagine, itā€™s happening. Thatā€™s why those Industry meetups I attended exist. Lookup ISAC. Automotive, finance, healthcare, manufacturingā€¦ Every vertical has an org where the security leadership exchanges best practices in spite of corporate competition, ā€œbc the bad guys are sharing tips, so why shouldnā€™t we?ā€

              I think youā€™re talking about PRISM? Iirc they had a pipe directly from the Bell/At&t Telco building at the Brooklyn bridge but that could have been hearsay. But Iā€™d argue he was just a historian, not a futurist. Itā€™s always been the same. Just different tools.