Device Lies.

Does Perzanowski cover AI and other advanced programmable systems in terms of the Right to Repair. Take for example, self-driving cars. An owner could recode the AI to have a head-on crash when it snows. Or reaches an altitude. Or, even, receives a phone call or other message from the cloud. Such systems need immutable tampering logs that can prove "repair" attempts and also reset to factory coding. For example, if you buy a used car. How do you make sure you didn't just buy a "device that lies?"

We actually put this immutable recording capability into hundreds of millions of digital storage devices as part of an international standard through www.trustedcomputinggroup.org's Storage Workgroup, read the free public "Core Spec," but no lawyers or governments cared, let alone any consumers. Every storage device maker in the world (e.g., Seagate, Western Digital/Sandisk, LG, Samsung, Intel, etc.) have the technology today but nobody wants it for consumer devices (at almost no manufacturing cost..pennies).

No, this is not a TPM which can be hacked and thereby blinded to tampering evidence and recovery.

The right to repair perceived defects needs to be there, but blame for the device that starts destructively lying needs to be there too. Somehow, people thought planes needed this, and got them in their black boxes for PILOT error, but not, unfortunately, in their storage devices for intelligent planes that can fly themselves. I realize that this means less need for lawyers, but guys..!

Thanks for this book review!