Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
by danielweber on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @03:50PM
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> So what should researchers do? Do nothing
There is a big world between "do nothing" and "put third-parties at risk by stalling a car on a three-lane highway with concrete barriers."
Doing the right thing is often boring and takes lots of work. That's why it's called "doing the right thing" and not "doing the splashy thing" or "doing the easy thing."
They already had the attention of the media. Keep on working with the media to get more and more attention. Is it hard? Then do it some more.
So what should researchers do? Do nothing and keep their hand clean while waiting for the train wreck to happen? Continue in a fruitless effort to warn people on papers only other researchers reads, knowing by historical evidence that no change will come from it. Ask government for permission to do a live test, knowing that it would never be granted. Do a demo test on a demo road, knowing that neither government, industry or public would care.
I don't like this either, but it seems to me as a society we only really give researchers one option and that is to do nothing and wait for the bodies to pile up.