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The real threat is foreign bad actors. Thereās a global database that maps all VINs.
How many Americans have connected cars?
How many are in garages?
How many will not smell the exhaust before it kills them when every car in the country is started one night?
Thatās WMD
Source: I used to meet with the CISOs of all the global auto manufacturers annually. If youāre a light sleeper, donāt work in infosec.
interesting idea for what really amounts to a terrorist attack. any others? i figure you may have some other cool ones
personally, iām more scared of our government in most cases. of course, foreign bad actors can and will do damage but over the long term the government, should it morph into something a bit more authoritarian than it is today, would have much more incentive and capability to do harmful things
i remember there was some leak nearly a decade ago already that showed NSA can access all smart TVs. some TVs even have microphones so that they can listen to whatās going on in your living room. Makes you wonder if Orwell was a time traveler
I was a pretty big punk rock anarchist conspiracy theorist from my preteens through my early 20s. Now I work in the field. IMHO the USā version (not the GOPās) of world order, is the least scary. And with these psychos threatening murder and shit, the SOTU rebuttal about knee deep in bloodā¦ Iāve come to accept whatever dumb shit I or anyone I know is doing online, the govt doesnāt give a shit. But as a FOSS nerd and EFF-donating privacy advocate, I feel you. My real fear is bad actors leveraging and extorting people.
As far as other examplesā¦ Just imagine every single thing you know is connected, is under attack 100% of every day in every direction. Way before the current tension, the US has been in cyber warfare with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. Right now theyāre all trying to steal each otherās classified data. Some off the books guys might be actively trying to meltdown a nuclear plant. The world is your oyster. Whatever you can imagine, itās happening. Thatās why those Industry meetups I attended exist. Lookup ISAC. Automotive, finance, healthcare, manufacturingā¦ Every vertical has an org where the security leadership exchanges best practices in spite of corporate competition, ābc the bad guys are sharing tips, so why shouldnāt we?ā
I think youāre talking about PRISM? Iirc they had a pipe directly from the Bell/At&t Telco building at the Brooklyn bridge but that could have been hearsay. But Iād argue he was just a historian, not a futurist. Itās always been the same. Just different tools.
The real threat is foreign bad actors. Thereās a global database that maps all VINs.
How many Americans have connected cars? How many are in garages? How many will not smell the exhaust before it kills them when every car in the country is started one night?
Thatās WMD
Source: I used to meet with the CISOs of all the global auto manufacturers annually. If youāre a light sleeper, donāt work in infosec.
interesting idea for what really amounts to a terrorist attack. any others? i figure you may have some other cool ones
personally, iām more scared of our government in most cases. of course, foreign bad actors can and will do damage but over the long term the government, should it morph into something a bit more authoritarian than it is today, would have much more incentive and capability to do harmful things
i remember there was some leak nearly a decade ago already that showed NSA can access all smart TVs. some TVs even have microphones so that they can listen to whatās going on in your living room. Makes you wonder if Orwell was a time traveler
I was a pretty big punk rock anarchist conspiracy theorist from my preteens through my early 20s. Now I work in the field. IMHO the USā version (not the GOPās) of world order, is the least scary. And with these psychos threatening murder and shit, the SOTU rebuttal about knee deep in bloodā¦ Iāve come to accept whatever dumb shit I or anyone I know is doing online, the govt doesnāt give a shit. But as a FOSS nerd and EFF-donating privacy advocate, I feel you. My real fear is bad actors leveraging and extorting people.
As far as other examplesā¦ Just imagine every single thing you know is connected, is under attack 100% of every day in every direction. Way before the current tension, the US has been in cyber warfare with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. Right now theyāre all trying to steal each otherās classified data. Some off the books guys might be actively trying to meltdown a nuclear plant. The world is your oyster. Whatever you can imagine, itās happening. Thatās why those Industry meetups I attended exist. Lookup ISAC. Automotive, finance, healthcare, manufacturingā¦ Every vertical has an org where the security leadership exchanges best practices in spite of corporate competition, ābc the bad guys are sharing tips, so why shouldnāt we?ā
I think youāre talking about PRISM? Iirc they had a pipe directly from the Bell/At&t Telco building at the Brooklyn bridge but that could have been hearsay. But Iād argue he was just a historian, not a futurist. Itās always been the same. Just different tools.