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Patrick Lincoln

American computer scientist

Sep 1, 2026

28:38
But we need to use that as part of our default thinking, right? That we just need to be able to operate.
28:47
So many platforms, think a car or helicopter or airplane, when they first started automating them with computers in them to do automatic anti-lock braking, those kinds of ABS braking kinds of systems, people assumed that the outside of the car was untrusted, but inside the car is trusted.
29:06
DARPA ran a program called HACMS, the High Assurance Cyber Military Systems, that looked at cars and helicopters and understood that within the car there was no authentication or encryption.
29:17
Essentially, if someone was able to break into or have a cyber vulnerability in any one component of the car, they could easily take over almost everything in the car.
29:26
So a different mindset is, oh, let's protect one part of the car, the radio, from the tire pressure gauge.
29:34
That was not the mindset when DARPA began the HACOMS program.
29:39
And by now, that is the right way to build a platform that there's internal controls, multilayer defense, and ways that things are monitored.
31:51
Surprise is, by definition,

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