On 8 Nov 2015, at 10:00, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I guess the question which is bothering me; is in these automotive and perhaps (aeronautical ?); applications of OS's where bugs, hacks and security holes really are' life and death' issues; are the security holes which have been found; just programmer carelessness or reflective of the seemingly never ending generation and discovery of bugs and security glitches ?
... Curiously there seems to be a convergence here with such science-fiction proposals as 'fly-by-fibre' which envisage the replacement of the weight and topological complexity of the aircraft wiring harness with a single ultra-high performance fibre optic net work and a single high voltage DC supply with solid-state DC-DC conversion at each controlled device. ...
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/ I don't foresee automotive (or terrifyingly, aircraft) manufacturers avoiding a lengthy 'hardening' period like we've experienced in general purpose computing.