Crashing and Hacking the Smart City–Yumeng Chen

Buggy, Brittle and Bugged

–In the case Y2K, the reality is very like the division of labour in society today, people just pay attention to their own duty, which relevance their own benefit only. However, if there’s a issue which brings no benefit or benefit others as well, who will have the motivation to do it?

 

An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber Attacks 

–In page 8, author talks about encryption issues, test process is really big issue. Because it is really depends on specific situation where this system placed. Kind like architecture, why we say it is irreproducible, because even we got the same drawings, we can’t build the same building in 2 places due to the different of weather, environment and even the workers. Same, I think the test should be in the specific location. How do we think about this idea which relates to the cost increasing and the time increasing?

 

–Another thing always comes to my mind is, in order to keep the city security, we have to keep improving the firewall in order to defend the hackers, same like the chip card technology. It’s kind like an abime, since we start with the big data, open source, we start to fight against the hackers. When we began to build smart city, did we consider about the cost of the follow up cost?