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How exactly does blocking car owners from working on their cars stop someone from exploiting them on a massive scale?
by ryukafalz 6y ago
How exactly does blocking car owners from working on their cars stop someone from exploiting them on a massive scale?
- noitpmeder 6y agoI mean if I sell faulty brakes, that could be easily disabled by someone doing something to them physically, it is still pretty hard to disable -everyone's- breaks. I have to go and physically, car by car, break them. With sofware, it is as simple as pushing a faulty OTA update. A large portion of all the cars will _instantly_ be impacted.
- beagle3 6y agoAnd yet, that does not answer the question "How exactly does blocking car owners from working on their cars stop someone from exploiting them on a massive scale?" If the OTA is buggy, it can be exploited on a massive scale regardless. If you have a hardware switch that needs to be pressed while updating software, there is no possibility for massive scale exploit.