Radio/infotainment devices in automobiles are the wild west of development. They're not tightly engineered software like firmware controllers. Its usually a sho

Radio/infotainment devices in automobiles are the wild west of development. They're not tightly engineered software like firmware controllers. Its usually a shoddy linux distro with some window dressing and as you can imagine a bunch of scripts keeping it all together. I imagine curl is used to grab some information from the web like updates, weather, etc. Because the copyright must be displayed somewhere, I imagine enough button mashing gets you that notice with his email pretty quickly on the radio head-end, thus the emails.