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Being able to remotely enable the heating on freezing days should be the justification for a limited bluetooth system in your car, not full internet connectivit
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
Being able to remotely enable the heating on freezing days should be the justification for a limited bluetooth system in your car, not full internet connectivity. The principle of least privilege should apply here.
- ajross 3y agoIf I have to be within 10m of the car to "remotely" enable the heating, I'm not remotely enabling the heating. No, if your BT feature doesn't work while sipping coffee in a ski lodge it's not an acceptable substitute. Add to that that bluetooth exploits are themselves a dime a dozen in the IoT world and I frankly don't even see what you gain. No, this is silly. Stuff is on the internet. If you're convinced it's safe for your phone[1] you should be able to be convinced it's safe for your car. [1] And, no, it's not particularly more safe for your phone than for your car. Apple and Google are incrementally better at this than GM is, surely, but everyone has zero days.
- palata 3y ago> If you're convinced it's safe for your phone[1] you should be able to be convinced it's safe for your car. No no no no, NO! Your phone can NOT kill anyone. Because you trust the software running on your phone to show you the weather forecast should not (as in NOT AT ALL, EVER) mean that you should trust any software that would control a rocket sending you to space.
- ijhuygft776 3y agoIt doesn't have to be limited to 10m.... it could use something like LoRa and then you would be in the kilometers range.