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You need to calm the fuck down.
I'm sure the engineers who designed it are pretty smart.
I'm also sure that there are people out there that are smarter.
The fact of the matter is, if it can be done, it can be undone. Period. Just like CSS, just like SDMI, just like every other thing out there where people thought "it's fool-proof" and "it's impossible to break". No. If it's put together, it can be taken apart. PERIOD.
Why do you feel the need to get so fucking offended? People speculate. I guarantee you that if this is set into motion, someone, somewhere, will figure out a circumvention device. That's what people do. That's why locks are picked. People like to solve puzzles. Even if the person is totally benign in their actions, other people can use it to do harm. This happens all the time, where one creation is used for the wrong purposes. Take the gun, for example. Or the crowbar. Or copyright law.
Honestly, I find it amazing that you believe everyone here is acting out of ignorance. "It appears that people have strong opinions about everything, no matter if they know the details or not." Hmm, kinda like someone bitching about someone else's opinion, not even bothering to ask if maybe they're a mechanical engineer? Or one who happens to study mechanical puzzles and designs to see their exploits, just for fun? You're no better, and you prove it with your post.
The only valid point you're able to muster is the fact that it <b>doesn't</b> need to be an epidemic. For creating the device, I applaud the engineers - it's probably a step in the right direction, even if we don't have an epidemic of non-stopping trucks. But the fact of the matter is, they said in the article that cops would engage it via a secret maneuver. Well, I'm sorry, but that's called "security through obscurity" and it's destined to fail. What makes you think that some crooked cop wouldn't do it? And that's under the ludicrous assumption that only cops could figure out how to do set it off. Are you seriously so naive as to think that there's no possible way someone else could set it off? Do you really think that the engineers designing this are the smartest people in the world and, in their OMNISCIENCE, have countered every single fucking way it could possibly be bypassed? Jesus the fucking Carpenter didn't build this, you know. It was done by a human and therefore is fallible.
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