Cory Doctorow, in a piece for WIRED entitled How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm, lambasts laws that require computing devices to have measures to prevent, curtail or otherwise control certain uses. Doctorow claims that any such legal requirements will become “intolerable and deadly dangerous when our 3-D printers, self-driving cars, smart houses, and even parts of our bodies are designed with the same restrictions.” He adds that, “imposing codes and commands that you can’t overrule is a recipe for disaster,” because it allows third parties to have greater control over a digital system or device than an owner. This is not a good idea because “hidden” programmed code is easily intercepted by hackers, making the owner vulnerable to harm. As Doctorow points out, “[t]here can be no [pre-programmed] ‘lawful interception’ capacity for a self-driving car, allowing police to order it to pull over, that wouldn’t also let a carjacker compromise your car and drive it to a convenient place to rob, rape, and/or kill you.” A scary thought indeed.