Based on Cesar Cerrudo’s reading: An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber Attacks, I think we can understand the smart city is tending to make citizen life better. It is like the large scale laptop. In the box there are many components which are working closely to perform its function. Can smart city like the laptop, it can be somehow back up itself and able to restart when it was attacked? Maybe the plan B will solve the partial problem that he mentions on paper such as cyber-attack. Then there will be another question, where to restore the data for such large “computer”? Since every second we produce thousands of data which will be process by some smart device, could be our phone, traffic sensor etc. Maybe on the end of data collection point we can have a smart filter device which only keep the important data. The idea of security is always going to be the major issue for today society. Maybe we should rethink the definition of security instead of fighting for it.
Also Cesar Cerrudo talks about the simple bugs with huge impact which is not an attack but the failure of software. Will the failure of software of the platform start impact other thing since we are trying to connect all smart things together? For example, he mentions that the traffic light system will be easiest system to be hacked. If we are using the smart phone to check the traffic on the road. Somehow the phone will hook up with traffic system. Will the failure of traffic system create a chine effect on our phone? Then the computer, maybe even bigger, other smart sensors/ system of city. Since the failure of software will exist somehow. Can we have some more complex interface just like he said on paper. For example, the internet access we have today. It should be the cellular data, wifi and line connection. Even the dinner next door. The example Townsend mentions on his book, the bug in BART system is the multiple failure of one single system. If we were not try to fix the problem immediately, instead we have another one which can have similar function. Then it will give us more time to fix the problem, not have the system shut down three times.