I was astonished by how un-safe the road/traffic system really is 8 years ago when I started to learn driving. Just think about it, driving on road is extremely vulnerable: any other driver on the road could make a small mistake to get you both killed, accidentally or intentionally. Yet the road system is far more secure than its cyberspace counter part. Why?
* Potential damage is roughly symmetric. A bad/evil driver might kill others but very likely also kill himself.
* Threat is local. There is no way a bad/evil driver to kill all the drivers.
* The road system as a whole does not have the single point of failure.
I think the claim in the article is dangerously wrong. We should never be given a binary choice in such big issue.
We should never be given a binary choice in such big issue.
The question, "should the security of any model of personal computing device be subject to the whims of every court in every nation" seems binary to me.
* Potential damage is roughly symmetric. A bad/evil driver might kill others but very likely also kill himself.
* Threat is local. There is no way a bad/evil driver to kill all the drivers.
* The road system as a whole does not have the single point of failure.
I think the claim in the article is dangerously wrong. We should never be given a binary choice in such big issue.