Palegray.net writes "Bruce Schneier brings us his outlook on a future filled with kill switches; from OnStar-equipped automobiles and city buses that can be remotely disabled by police to Microsoft's patent-pending ideas apropos alleged Digital Manners Policies. In Schneier's view, these capabilities aren't exactly high points of our likely future. From the article: 'Once we go down this path — giving one device control over other devices — the safety problems start piling up. Who has the jurisdiction to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?' We anew discussed the Pentagon's interest in kill switches for airplanes. At what point does centralizing and/or delegating operational control over so much of our lives become a dangerous perform of its own?"

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