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Re: Another alarmist article
Right, we all know how companies LOVE to admit their products are flawed, and immediately rush in to spend money fixing it.
Like the Toyota recalls! They did that as soon as they found out there were problems.
Really, with computer security, shit like this is good. Most of these things can be fixed before the word of the problem even gets around.
I think as we see more integrated computers like this, in cars, in houses (Intelligent Homes or whatever they're calling it these days), in aircraft (Especially as we start to see Cockpit-less aircraft), we're going to see a lot more demand for open source systems. Not for the 'oh hey, you can publicly modify it' bit nearly as much as the "everyone can look at the source code and find potential problems" aspect. People aren't going to want to want to trust that criminals won't be able to stop their engines, unlock their doors, and mess with aircraft navigation based purely on what a company says-- especially after the first incident where we find out that a company intentionally covered up or put off a security problem so they wouldn't have to fix it. We'll probably see a huge increase in the number of systems that are open source, but still copyrighted, which isn't too common right now.
Originally posted by Omgwtfbbqkitten
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Like the Toyota recalls! They did that as soon as they found out there were problems.
Really, with computer security, shit like this is good. Most of these things can be fixed before the word of the problem even gets around.
I think as we see more integrated computers like this, in cars, in houses (Intelligent Homes or whatever they're calling it these days), in aircraft (Especially as we start to see Cockpit-less aircraft), we're going to see a lot more demand for open source systems. Not for the 'oh hey, you can publicly modify it' bit nearly as much as the "everyone can look at the source code and find potential problems" aspect. People aren't going to want to want to trust that criminals won't be able to stop their engines, unlock their doors, and mess with aircraft navigation based purely on what a company says-- especially after the first incident where we find out that a company intentionally covered up or put off a security problem so they wouldn't have to fix it. We'll probably see a huge increase in the number of systems that are open source, but still copyrighted, which isn't too common right now.
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