Resilience over rigidity: how to solve tomorrow’s computer problems today

My new Locus Magazine column, Wicked Problems: Resilience Through Sensing, proposes a solution the urgent problem we have today of people doing bad stuff with computers. Where once “bad stuff with computers” meant “hacking your server,” now it could potentially mean “blocking air-traffic control transmissions” or “programming your self-driving car to kill you.”

The traditional regulatory model for solving this kind of problem — making it technologically difficult to accomplish this badness...