Re:The Doomsday Invention
by fennecfoxen on Sunday December 13, 2015 @11:58PM
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> Any intelligence capable of taking over or shutting down a wide range of systems,
That's a thing I don't care for about most science-fiction. The AI entity can just magically take over every technology it's connected to, because magic. No concern about the computational complexity of breaking the code-signing certificates on the affected computers. It's like everything on the Internet of Things is hopelessly and completely insecure!
... okay now that I type that out, maybe that's more realistic than I gave it credit for after all ... :b
That's a thing I don't care for about most science-fiction. The AI entity can just magically take over every technology it's connected to, because magic. No concern about the computational complexity of breaking the code-signing certificates on the affected computers. It's like everything on the Internet of Things is hopelessly and completely insecure!
... okay now that I type that out, maybe that's more realistic than I gave it credit for after all ... :b