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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by jtbayly on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:42PM (#15801308)
The fear is not of bugs killing people. The fear is of bugs allowing people to kill people.

If ISIS was able to hack a major fleet through one such bug, do you think for a single moment they wouldn't make use of it to kill many people?

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by ovao on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:09PM (#15801673)
Which is a legitimate fear, and substantial effort should go into preventing such bugs, but any sufficiently determined person doesn't need to exploit a software bug to be able to kill others. ISIS appears to be quite effective at simply convincing its members to directly and voluntarily engage themselves in such acts.
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by jtbayly on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:26AM (#15806970)
Yeah, but we're dealing with an order of magnitude difference if we give them control over > 1Million mobile bombs (ie 1 large self-driving car network).
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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by ovao on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:08PM (#15808525)
Unless it was somehow possible to remotely trigger a battery explosion, no, we would not be giving anyone control over “mobile bombs”.
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