Post #1439814
2026-03-16 19:32 UTC
But at this point EVERYTHING touches a computer at some point. When things start going wrong in a hospital or prison, or within the government, someone is going to die.
The risk introduced by each Silicon Valley idiot-factory compounds the more that those systems interact with one another.
So I genuinely wish I could just deep-freeze my devices until we can sort this nonsense out.
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@Haste@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 19:42
If you were hoping for an end of thread insight, some kind of solution or proposal, I’ve got bad news for you. I’ve got nothing. All I know is that my threat model is a whole lot broader recently. Trying to think ahead just a little bit, it seems safer to assume that every program which can update without my input, will in short order become a liability. And that I better start planning how I can best navigate the world without my phone or my laptop, even when those things are mandatory.
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@alex@social.alexhyett.com 2026-03-16 19:37
@Haste this is definitely going to be an issue. There is already a taste of what’s to come from all the recent outages of Big Tech. It is only a matter of time for this to make it into more critical software.