Nowadays it's more important to control and restrict outgoing connections than incoming connections. Who would had thought of that 25 years ago.
But yeah, current situation is getting ridiculous. One could always expect malicious actors, but I didn't guess people will be routinely putting in the cloud things that have no business being Internet-dependent. Then again, I remember first reading pg's essays, in which he praised the benefits of running things on your server and delivering them as a webpage, instead of standalone software. I nodded along, and it only occurred to me many years later how incredibly user-hostile that is, too.
Good. I sure hope only a small fraction of the population will be able to manually drive their car in the future. It would save lives, time, and money for everyone if the bulk of the idiots were unable to manually drive their car.
I'll give you "lives" and "money," but not necessarily time.
I live in a place where self-driving vehicles can be spotted fairly regularly. Once a week or so. You can tell by the special license plates. They are always very ponderous, careful drivers. It's fascinating to see them gently slow to a stop for a red light, then take off like a jackrabbit when it turns green.
Perhaps as the technology matures, they'll start to keep pace with traffic better.
I'm actually looking forward to self-driving cars. It's all the personal time benefits of mass transit (book reading, meditating, general mental health), without worrying about accidentally sitting in someone else's pee.
It would have to be a child being killed.
> If someone can devise a way for me to share my information while controlling how that information can be used later, it would go a long way to striking the right balance. I guess that's more or less "personal DRM" for our information.
It would not be easy to do this in a technical manner, as it could be defeated (as with most DRM). It sounds like a legislative solution would be best.
-> Homomorphic encryption is an active field of research. Legal is most likely the better solution. Probably.
Our product can run completely locally and do a good job. Allow connectivity to other devices in the building and performance improves. Extend connectivity to our cloud servers and it gets a little better still. You can always revert to lower levels (and an Internet outage would simulate that, for example).
We regard your data as yours unless you want to share it for a specific reason.
Later I switched to McAfee Corporate Firewall (in which I could even allow/block IPs/ports).
Now I am proudly using WFC that someone mentioned in another post earlier.
Maybe that's why this problem exists now, because no one had thought of it?
Put in routes for your local networks and applications, set up a proxy server for any legitimate traffic that needs to "exit" the network (i.e., go to the Internet), and simply drop anything else.