Worse still, the middle of Chicago in the middle of a snow storm, when the road is covered in slippery snow, and the road markings are not visible. A human can guess where the road lanes are, or simply follow the tire ruts from the cars ahead of them, but robo-cars are not quite ready for bad weather yet.
Well, obviously, you would have to write everything yourself, from the custom OS upwards. The testing would have to be extreme, and extensive, and the code meticulously written and reviewed. All code paths would have to be exercised fully. You would not be able to use any third-party libraries of any kind, and you might even have to build the compilers and linkers yourself too. This is certainly doable, but the cost and time needed would be insanely prohibitive, so that is why it is never done. The cost and time components have to be weighed against the possibility of bugs being present. Most of us would rather risk a few bugs than to have to wait decades between releases, and have the software cost millions, if not billions, of dollars.
The only problem with this theory is that your basement setup cannot help you learn the valuable skill of social engineering, which was a major tool in Kevin Mitnick's toolbox. The value of social engineering should not be underestimated. Computers get more secure at a much faster rate than people do. As Kevin said, people are the weakest link in the security chain.
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Worse still, the middle of Chicago in the middle of a snow storm, when the road is covered in slippery snow, and the road markings are not visible. A human can guess where the road lanes are, or simply follow the tire ruts from the cars ahead of them, but robo-cars are not quite ready for bad weather yet.
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And as soon as the first chip comes off the assembly line, Apple will sue Samsung for patent infringement. :-)
Well, obviously, you would have to write everything yourself, from the custom OS upwards. The testing would have to be extreme, and extensive, and the code meticulously written and reviewed. All code paths would have to be exercised fully. You would not be able to use any third-party libraries of any kind, and you might even have to build the compilers and linkers yourself too. This is certainly doable, but the cost and time needed would be insanely prohibitive, so that is why it is never done. The cost and time components have to be weighed against the possibility of bugs being present. Most of us would rather risk a few bugs than to have to wait decades between releases, and have the software cost millions, if not billions, of dollars.
The only problem with this theory is that your basement setup cannot help you learn the valuable skill of social engineering, which was a major tool in Kevin Mitnick's toolbox. The value of social engineering should not be underestimated. Computers get more secure at a much faster rate than people do. As Kevin said, people are the weakest link in the security chain.
Coming next summer! Plants vs. Madden 2012!
Sit, BarkingCanineMammal, sit. Good dog.