> Nobody is going to try to clone a tractor because they have the source code for it. In the automotive industry, people and companies will do this (at the com

> Nobody is going to try to clone a tractor because they have the source code for it. In the automotive industry, people and companies will do this (at the component level). Enabling features via that the OEM has disabled due to its marked segmentation strategy via aftermarket components is done (and would be done to a greater extend if OEMs did not protect the part of their diagnostic stack that handles feature activation). For example, XCP or UDS security access modules are sometimes distributed by the Tier 1 as a DLL so that even the OEM has no source code for the concrete authentication mechanism that is used.