Interesting Thought (Highly recommended Article) - Modern cars are computers we put our bodies in , whereas hearing aids and pacemakers are computers we put in our body.. This means that all of our sociopolitical problems in the future will have a computer inside them, too.

This is a very long and a well thought out article.
I have extracted a few important points (and this itself is long)



Whether you want to be free—or want to enslave—you need control. And for that, you need this knowledge.

If your world is made of computers, then designing computers to override their owners' decisions has significant human rights implications.

Human rights and property rights both demand that computers not be designed for remote control by governments, corporations, or other outside institutions. Both ensure that owners be allowed to specify what software they're going to run.


Users of computers don't always have the same interests as the owners of computers— and, increasingly, we will be users of computers that we don't own.

it's not a good security approach: if vehicular security models depend on all the other vehicles being well-behaved and the unexpected never arising, we are dead meat.

Self-driving cars must be conservative in their approach to their own conduct, and liberal in their expectations of others' conduct.

DRM and its cousins are deployed by people who believe you can't and shouldn't be trusted to set policy on the computer you own. Likewise, IT systems are deployed by computer owners who believe that computer users can't be trusted to set policy on the computers they use.

When the computer says yes, you might need to still say no.
This is the idea that owners possess local situational awareness that can't be perfectly captured by a series of nested if/then statements.

Soul of Hayekism — we're smarter at the edge than we are in the middle.

it's easy to consider the possibility that there are going to be people — potentially a lot of people — who are "users" of computers that they don't own, and where those computers are part of their bodies.

Consider some of the following scenarios:

• You are a minor child and your deeply religious parents pay for your cochlear implants, and ask for the software that makes it impossible for you to hear blasphemy.
• You are broke, and a commercial company wants to sell you ad-supported implants that listen in on your conversations and insert "discussions about the brands you love".
• Your government is willing to install cochlear implants, but they will archive everything you hear and review it without your knowledge or consent.

Far-fetched? The Canadian border agency was just forced to abandon a plan to fill the nation's airports with hidden high-sensitivity mics that were intended to record everyone's conversations.
Will the Iranian government, or Chinese government, take advantage of this if they get the chance?

Here are four major customers for the existing censorware/spyware/lockware industry: 

1. repressive governments
2. large corporations 
3. schools
4. paranoid parents.

I'm an attorney, doctor, corporate executive, or merely a human who doesn't like the idea of his private stuff being available to anyone who is friends with a dirty cop.

• So, at this point, I give the three-finger salute with the F-keys. This drops the computer into a minimal bootloader shell, one that invites me to give the net-address of an alternative OS, or to insert my own thumb-drive and boot into an operating system there instead.
• The cafe owner's OS is parked and I can't see inside it. But the bootloader can assure me that it is dormant and not spying on me as my OS fires up. When it's done, all my working files are trashed, and the minimal bootloader confirms it

This keeps the computer's owner from spying on me, and keeps me from leaving malware on the computer to attack its owner.

Fundamentally, this is the difference between freedom and openness — between free software and open source.

The potential for abuse in a world made of computers is much greater: 

• Your car drives itself to the repo yard. 
• Your high-rise apartment building switches off its elevators and climate systems, stranding thousands of people until a disputed license payment is settled.

Sounds fanciful? This has already happened with multi-level parking garages.
Back in 2006, a 314-car Robotic Parking model RPS1000 garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, took all the cars in its guts hostage, locking down the software until the garage's owners paid a licensing bill that they disputed.

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