dfelt, on 18 May 2012 - 12:34 PM, said:
Oldsmoboi, on 18 May 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:
The Department of Homeland Security. They are planning on disabling large swaths of the cellular network AND people's private WIFI in Chicago when the NATO conference comes to town next week.
They can try but there will still be ways to get around it for engineers like us who know how.
And that is the slippery slope my friend. Sure black-boxes could be defeated, sure data can be hacked, but then you are doing it illegally, which means you are revolting against the better good the government is providing you by providing you security.
The Gov never has your security in mind. There is always select groups that believe their agenda is more important than your freedom.
Hitler thought he knew better as to what is best for the germans and we ended up with genocide.
Black Box's are NOT there for your benefit, it is for an alternative agenda the gov has to control your life. While many advances such as stability control clearly helps drivers, I have to challange that all technology is truly beneficial to society. Computers are still not as fast as the human mind and a computer cannot and is not aware of what is going on around you at the time you are driving. The Black box is just a horse with blinders on that will never truly show the whole picture and I for one refuse to have some nany device telling me how or what to do.
Black Box's are a step towards reducing your freedom in an auto and for everyone here who feels it is not clearly is happy to be a lemming and follow the pied piper off the cliff.
Sacrifice your freedom of choice and have people / companies or GOV/Business/Insurance companies define what/where and when you can do something and you have lost your freedom.