An immense body of software developed under the ‘move fast and break things’ policy dominates the software in our cars, the power grid, water treatment plants and chemical factories.
The Dawn Project demands that this defective and insecure software be replaced with software that never fails and can’t be hacked.
The Software That Runs the World Must be Made Secure
An immense body of software developed under the ‘move fast and break things’ policy dominates the software in our cars, the power grid, water treatment plants and chemical factories.
Top US officials have warned that a cyberattack on critical infrastructure is the ‘defining threat of our generation.’
The Software That Runs the World Must be Made Secure
An immense body of software developed under the ‘move fast and break things’ policy dominates the software in our cars, the power grid, water treatment plants and chemical factories.
Top US officials have warned that a cyberattack on critical infrastructure is the ‘defining threat of our generation.’
About Our Founder
The Dawn Project was founded by Dan O’Dowd, the world’s leading expert in creating software that never fails and can’t be hacked. Dan created the secure operating systems for projects including Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Fighter Jets, the Boeing B1-B Intercontinental Nuclear Bomber, and NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Dan’s secure operating system received the highest security rating ever issued by the NSA to an operating system, EAL6+ High Robustness, view the certificate here.
“In interviews with zero-day brokers, O’Dowd’s software was consistently cited as the only software they couldn’t break.”
– Nicole Perlroth, former lead cybersecurity reporter for The New York Times
Dan has been a pioneer of making safety-critical software systems unhackable since his days at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Dan is a recipient of the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor which Caltech bestows upon a graduate.
Dan’s expertise in creating the most secure operating systems in the world led him to found The Dawn Project, which is dedicated to making computers truly safe for humanity.
Mission Statement
The critical computer-controlled systems that our lives depend on have been connected to the Internet with software riddled with millions of bugs and security defects.
Power grids, hospitals, oil & gas pipelines, water treatment plants, traffic lights, cars, trucks, and trains are at the mercy of hackers, rogue states, terrorists and other bad actors. They can exploit these defects to disable, destroy, or commandeer our essential systems.
We cannot survive without our critical infrastructure. If it were to break down or be held to ransom, food would not be transported to supermarkets; electricity and water would not be supplied to homes and offices. Within weeks families would huddle together in the cold and dark, without food or clean water.
It is not acceptable for the software that runs the world to have bugs or security defects that hackers can exploit to bring us to our knees. It is an existential threat to humanity as great as climate change and as apocalyptic as nuclear Armageddon.
The Dawn Project’s mission is to identify and call out the software that puts humanity at risk and to demand that defective and insecure software be replaced with software that never fails and can’t be hacked.
The Dawn Project is Campaigning to Ban Tesla’s Defective Full Self-Driving Software
At least 60 people have died in over 3,200 crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving software, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This is as many deaths as the Ford Pinto and Takata’s exploding airbags combined..
The Dawn Project identified countless critical safety defects in Tesla’s self-driving software in 2021, and has been campaigning to ban Tesla’s defective software from public roads.
Super Bowl Ad Campaign 2024
Here’s What Elon Musk Doesn’t Want you to Know:
He sells defective self-driving AI software by telling consumers it is many times safer than a human driver, when in fact it drives like a drunk teenager.
He refuses to disable Autopilot on roads where he knows it isn’t safe. Watch the Autopilot crashes below.
Anyone who buys a Tesla from Elon Musk is an enabler for his reckless behavior, including his self-driving experiments that have resulted in over 1,000 crashes and at least 33 tragic deaths.
90% of people agree that the safety defects in Tesla’s self-driving AI mean it should be banned immediately. But Tesla refuses to fix the safety defects, the regulators refuse to ban the software, and the politicians won’t act until the public demands it.
Boycott Tesla to Cut off The Funding for Elon Musk’s Depraved Human Experiments.
Many software security experts would undoubtedly question whether this laudable aim is possible. They would sincerely claim all software has bugs and every system can be hacked. Their experience would bear that out. However, their experience would be based on consumer and civilian systems. If they were to focus, for instance, on software for nuclear weapons systems they would think differently.
AI IS FAR TOO STUPID TO BE USED IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
The Dawn Project’s full-page New York Times and Wall Street Journal ad examining AI’s failures.
Silicon Valley’s snake oil salesmen told the world that AI would eliminate white collar jobs.
AI was so woefully inept that it got fired and replaced by minimum wage teenagers across the fast food industry.
AI CEOs are now backtracking as companies abandon their AI models amid spiralling costs and no measurable productivity gains.
AI IS FAR TOO STUPID TO BE USED IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
The Dawn Project’s full-page New York Times and Wall Street Journal ad examining AI’s failures.
Read The Dawn Project’s full page ad in the Wall Street Journal.
Silicon Valley’s snake oil salesmen told the world that AI would eliminate white collar jobs.
AI was so woefully inept that it got fired and replaced by minimum wage teenagers across the fast food industry.
AI CEOs are now backtracking as companies abandon their AI models amid spiralling costs and no measurable productivity gains.
About
Many software security experts would undoubtedly question whether it is possible to make software that never fails and can’t be hacked. They would sincerely claim all software has bugs and every system can be hacked. Their experience would bear that out. However, their experience would be based on consumer and civilian systems. If they were to focus, for instance, on software for nuclear weapons systems they would think differently.
In 1997 Dan won the contract to deliver his operating system to run the B1-B Intercontinental Nuclear Bomber, a weapon of mass destruction where one error could vaporize a city. The operating system controls everything in the plane: flight controls, navigation, communications, and weapons systems. Dan delivered it to Boeing and supported it himself until it was flying. More than 20 years later, it is still flying the B1-B.
The Dawn Methodology soon became the standard for developing software for weapons of mass destruction by winning contracts for the B-2 Stealth bomber, the B-52 bomber, as well as the F-16, F-22, and F-35 fighter jets.
The Dawn Methodology secures our nuclear forces, military aircraft and missiles, top secret encryption devices, and communications equipment. It also flies the Airbus A380 commercial airliner.
Recently, Dan used The Dawn Methodology to build an unhackable laptop for the FBI, an unhackable cell phone for the military, and to secure safety systems in millions of vehicles from the world’s leading car makers.
None of these systems has ever failed or been hacked. That is the way to develop the software for the systems that our lives depend on.