SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find
Forensic analysis of drives by investigators now uncertain
http://news.techworld.com/security/3263093/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find/?olo=rss
Quite amazing how the steps to Skynet are taken unconsciously and incrementally. I am sure that many will question this comparison, but the important thing to take away from this (other than go with these drives if you are a bad guy) is that these things are happening ‘automagically‘ and through combination of disparate efforts of a wide range of people. To me it is trivial to extrapolate this to implementing control software (indeed, I already made such a proposal for network security management) that behaves in unexpected manners due to the complexity and non-linear feedback of all these people dedicatedly doing their jobs to make things run faster, smoother and with less need for human interaction.
Just like we (here in the US) labor under the misapprehension that we are a democracy, I am starting to think that we are beginning to live under the same misconception that we are in control of our control software.
Much like Kent Brockman and his continual willingness to prostitute himself to whatever invading power the show happens to feature, I feel compelled to add this:
“Skynet, I am no threat to you!”
