• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Think of the money you can extort from your customers with a steady diet of software bugs. It worked for microsoft.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Some day, car companies are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they are software companies with a manufacturing department.

    The rest of the software industry learned this the hard way. If you only let paying customers have access to security patches, the effects will spill over to your paying customers and everyone else. It’s why Microsoft let’s you have “Activate Windows” sit on your screen for years and still gives you updates.

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      7 months ago

      But that’s the thing, I don’t want a car that has software that requires cybersecurity.

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    7 months ago

    ah, the subscription model for basic security. lovely. soon we’ll be paying a monthly fee just to make sure the doors still lock. guess car companies really are just software companies now, and not the good kind.

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    7 months ago

    Keep in mind that the car-stealing device reportedly costs around $20,000, so the likelihood of it being in the ownership of a thief isn’t extremely high.

    What is this magic device that costs so much?

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    7 months ago

    just a reminder that if it’s really obviously stupid then there’s probably more to the story

    The Verge now reports that Hyundai is offering a security patch

    so this is a story of a story of an offer on the hyundai website to upgrade the cars security

    and ive stopped caring this is such sloppy garbage i expect from american technology websites