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I don't think the patch is hardware. The hardware they're talking about is the "Gameboy like device" that runs the exploit.

• echoangle 1y ago
  > The Verge now reports that Hyundai is offering a security patch for this issue through software and hardware upgrades to Ioniq 5 customers. You do a hardware upgrade on the car to patch the vulnerability.
  • commandersaki 1y ago
    The etymology of patch harkens back to Larry Wall's UNIX patch tool for applying diffs to a source code base.
    • ralph84 1y ago
      The etymology of patch predates software by hundreds of years.
    • antonvs 1y ago
      https://www.etymonline.com/word/patch https://www.etymonline.com/word/patch > "piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14th century. > Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923 on the notion of tying together various pieces of apparatus to form a circuit.