Fab Foodie
Legendary Member
Well that's a big question I have been pondering of late (no point pondering small things)....
I've been triggered by the recent cyber attacks on our Supermarkets and food infra-structure. Of course cyber-attacks are nothing new, in defense, ransoms, bad state actors etc. Cyber security is a constant arms race between hackers and security companies.
Everything new these days is 'connected' therefore everything is pretty-much open to hacking. What if modern cars were hacked so tey all stopped at the same time? Well, my 14 year old unconnected C1 would rise in value!
So what about returning to some of the old ways of doing things that are less hackable?
I was listening to the travails of trying to book a driving test - places are scarce and bots are buying-up spaces on the online booking system as they become available and re-selling them - like ticket touting. Government man said it was going to take years and millions to put a system in place to stop this - really? Why not take a step back and look at the old ways of doing things? Surely we could get people to book at their local driving test center where only staff have access to the bookings? Couldn't that be simpler? Stop the tout-bots by having to physically be present to book your test at the center with your provisional-licence in hand, just like the old days. OK, some system changes may be required and some more people might be employed to administer bookings - jobs are no bad thing. But it might be cost effective in the longer term.
Whenever there's some kind of major cyber-infrastructure fail there are usually (in any decent system) some kind of emergency work-around...why not just make that the norm and remove the opportunity for hacking (cost of course), but cyber attacks are not cost free either.
OK, maybe a bit naive - but many of us know how stuff got done before big tech stole our lives and maybe some of those ways are worth revisiting in an ever unreliable and unstable world.
Fcuk the algorithm!
Discuss!
I've been triggered by the recent cyber attacks on our Supermarkets and food infra-structure. Of course cyber-attacks are nothing new, in defense, ransoms, bad state actors etc. Cyber security is a constant arms race between hackers and security companies.
Everything new these days is 'connected' therefore everything is pretty-much open to hacking. What if modern cars were hacked so tey all stopped at the same time? Well, my 14 year old unconnected C1 would rise in value!
So what about returning to some of the old ways of doing things that are less hackable?
I was listening to the travails of trying to book a driving test - places are scarce and bots are buying-up spaces on the online booking system as they become available and re-selling them - like ticket touting. Government man said it was going to take years and millions to put a system in place to stop this - really? Why not take a step back and look at the old ways of doing things? Surely we could get people to book at their local driving test center where only staff have access to the bookings? Couldn't that be simpler? Stop the tout-bots by having to physically be present to book your test at the center with your provisional-licence in hand, just like the old days. OK, some system changes may be required and some more people might be employed to administer bookings - jobs are no bad thing. But it might be cost effective in the longer term.
Whenever there's some kind of major cyber-infrastructure fail there are usually (in any decent system) some kind of emergency work-around...why not just make that the norm and remove the opportunity for hacking (cost of course), but cyber attacks are not cost free either.
OK, maybe a bit naive - but many of us know how stuff got done before big tech stole our lives and maybe some of those ways are worth revisiting in an ever unreliable and unstable world.
Fcuk the algorithm!
Discuss!
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