> if it turns out we can’t trust the people who are making them.
...or if we can't trust the people who'll use them.
Self-driving cars and trucks are every Jihadi's wet dream.
...or if we can't trust the people who'll use them.
Self-driving cars and trucks are every Jihadi's wet dream.
Yes, no system is perfectly unhackable, but since terrorist cells tend to be small and relatively isolated I could see it being the case that the people who want to use cars as remote weapons would not be people who have the time and talent to make that happen.
State-sponsored groups may be a different story of course.
That is wishful thinking. Islamic State has been very successful in recruiting and radicalizing young english speaking hackers in Europe -- mostly in Britain (children of Pakistani immigrants), Belgium (2nd generation Moroccans) and France (descendants of french-algerian immigrants).
Here's one that I know of. British-Pakistani hacker Junnaid Hussain => See "Here’s how the military tracked down and killed the top hacker for ISIS" http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-hacker-trick-found-2016-...
> Hussain, a high profile recruiter for ISIS who hacked CENTCOM’s Twitter and YouTube accounts, was considered the second ranked British jihadi behind Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John). Hussain was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria in August 2015.
Source: http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/middle-east/isis-hacker...
Junaid was know for his hacking skills, he used to publish "Kill Lists" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junaid_Hussain
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t.h...
Recently a plot was unearthed , and thwarted, in London. A state sponsored actor with ties to ISIS branch in Libya was trying to start a self-driving car rental agency.
They could - in theory - pack a self-driving car or worse, a truck , with explosives and remote control drive it into a crowd of "infidels".
Rinse repeat in various cities.