Re:Self-Crashing Cars
by brokenmachine on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:59PM
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Why are you only talking about "foreign" terror attacks?
The Oklahoma bomber killed 168, for example. The first one that came to my mind.
Well our domestic terrorists aren't that successful or competent either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States
Most news organizations report on foreign and domestic terror differently. When the average American thinks of a terrorist it isn't a white guy with a U-Haul.
Re:Self-Crashing Cars
by LinuxBender on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:03PM
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Terrorists? Try 12 year old angst filled kids that get bullied in school and/or at home. How many 10 to 17 year old angst filled kids have access to the internet?
It's fortunate that terrorists are both very incompetent and very low in number. How else do you explain the fact that there's been exactly 1 very serious and successful foreign terror attack on US soil (the highest value target in the world) in the past 50-ish years?
Currently there's the very possible opportunity of a power grid/infrastructure attack that could kill tens of thousands. But nobody should be truly worried about it.
Terrorists just aren't that good at what they do. Why would they somehow be better at hacking cars than they are at anything else?