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0 pointsben_w1y ago0 comments

> In fact, you again spend your whole message talking about abstract considerations

No.

Not abstractions.

I have experience of software, I know how bad the entire industry is.

https://xkcd.com/2030/ applies to everything.

Even without malice, my degree used as case studies the failures of the Therac-25 and the digitalisation of the 1992 failure of the London Ambulance Service computerised dispatch system.

Hospitals and devices do get attacked. Bitcoin ransomware does affect hospitals. These are not abstractions, they are things that actually happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device_hijack

I wasn't being "abstract" when I said the frequency with which attacks are attempted can be measured in Herz, that's an actual anecdote from someone I knew a decade ago.

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tmnvdb1y ago

Software safety is an abstract concept. You have experience with specific instances of problems that fall under the abstract concept of software security. This is not to say it is not important.

Not being able to move your hands is not an abstract concept. It can be directly experienced.

ben_wOP1y ago

"A specific disability" is as little of an abstraction as "this specific software vulnerability".

"Disability in general" exactly as much an abstraction as "software safety in general".

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