From: The Weekly Standard
A cyber-security war is coming for driverless cars. Here’s what it will take to win.
By Zach Aysan
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4) Trusting automotive companies. Equifax and Ashley Madison were secure. Until they weren’t. National security isn’t something to entrust to corporations and certainly not to corporations from countries with a poor history on cyber security, such as China. Capitalism rewards invention and risk, not long-tail risk mitigation.
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Instead, regulations should be functional. For instance, a maxim such as “data should never be readable by an intermediary network device” or “no action taken by the media computer should change state in the control computer” so fines and security bounties aren’t arbitrary, but automotive companies can still compete on the speed of their technology advancement.
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