What are other companies / products that could risk public safety if they were managed by over-networked systems (e.g., healthcare) and then hacked? What are some elements of those products that should never have access to the Internet (e.g., sacred family recipes), and those that should be carefully guarded (e.g., logins to the pasteurization sensors)? Why?
Medicine manufacturers can risk public safety if they were managed by over-networked systems and then hacked. The composition of patented medicine should never have access to the Internet, or it is possible to be stolen and replicated using different ingredients with similar chemical effects (although this would definitely hurt the company, this might be not bad news for the public because the patented medicine might be making too much money selling their over-priced products which could be manufactured by cheaper ingredients.) The logins to the systems that control the temperature and bio environment of the manufacturing devices should be carefully guarded because they are essential to the quality of the medicine manufactured.
Another example would be automobile companies.
How might this discussion have gone differently had she stayed quiet, or the CEO ignored her, etc.? What would have been lost?
They might not realize that company was over-networked and would focus on even implementing more digital systems to solve the problem.
What were the implicit (technical, hierarchical, gender) assumptions that she challenged, and why was it important that she did so?
She challenged that the technical related problems should only be addressed by the technical employees in the company. It was assumed that the tech people knew more about the technologies so they know more about how to do things in a more “advanced” way.
As space permits, how might the topics of this case study be relevant to your own project?
Our project might not need so much fancy tech behind it.
