Two Issues to consider - If an application was built with a backdoor the hackers of the world would invest their considerable talents and efforts into finding that back door and they will find it once found it will be abused. Once the back door has been uncovered the company who built the application would be required to fix it. Now who is going to pay for the fixing? Not the company because they know the same things that one is reading now. YOU will pay for the new application. YOU will pay to inform ALL the people who are using this now worthless application that it is broken and needs to be updated. YOU will pay to download and ensure that the new version is in use. This will happen over and over until YOU give up your foolish mandate. The state of Mississippi once considered mandating PI as 3. Same issue, politics needs to understand mandating foolish ideas makes one look like the fool they are! --- Since the world has MANY countries in it, any mandate for USofA would not apply to the other countries. Any person wanting or needing a non-FU encryption application would find one from some other source and use it. How are YOU going to mandate what application one uses to encrypt? You can't! Poof! There goes universal back door access!

A head-on collision between two Jovian moons would create a crash so large it would be visible from earth, astronomers said. --- Ok, what time frame: minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia?

Sweden doesn't have our problems with education, They rate teachers very highly and pay them to think and teach.

I graduated in '60's. The only computer we had in HS were Slide Rules.

Make it mandatory that the test for the error be part of the submission, then the developer has the code to test for the error/bug/problem etc. Yeah it might get problematic, but better to have the error actually checked than not.

Any product that has ANY post sale involvement is up for DRM (Digital Rights Management) abuse! Any home appliance the breaks or needs repair! Any vehicle that needs repair! This is a BIG issue! DRM MUST be toned down to protect the original manufacturer or sale, but NOT limit or deny repair for fix by a 3rd party!

Colossus: The Forbin Project

I would make it MANDATORY that every robot made have an OFF switch! Governments, clandestine organizations; CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. all make life and death decisions daily. Their mechanical servants MUST have an OFF switch that works from a distance. Otherwise one may get into a situation like SKYNET, COLOSIS, etc.

Make damn sure it's in an unbreakable container. Accidents do happen, and you don't want MRSA to get loose on the ISS!

Wasn't long ago you were crying for water. Now you got it.

We have emergency tools with hammers, cutters and sharp point to break the older tempered glass, Now how will one break this new Gorilla glass? Or will one need an explosive to break it?

It might help if Google had an add-on to E-Mail and Google that specifically checked ALL software that entered the system for Crypto Bugs!

Put a string of password like alphabet soup in a routine. Then when that routine becomes ensconced in some other application it can still be searched for and noted for replacement of removal. It would only take about 128 bytes to clearly note application, programmer, usage, date, time, etc. It used to be a size issue but with todays Gigabyte memory size, that issue has diminished dramatically.

And how fast does anyone think the hackers will usurp the technology to FORCE the cars to crash?

This new process needs to be ABSOLUTELY secure otherwise the script kiddies in addition to all the other hackers will have a field day!