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Yay, a car company is choosing between two closed-source, almost certainly compromised, podunk OSes. It's not that either is particularly bad (even though at l
by undoware 13y ago
Yay, a car company is choosing between two closed-source, almost certainly compromised, podunk OSes.
It's not that either is particularly bad (even though at least one is); it's that there is a free, as-good-or-better option. It's a much more secure, much more trustable option, and it's obviously to use Linux, *BSD or even Android instead.
I'd rather not have the speakers in my car turned into roving wiretaps, thanks. My conversations might not be relevant to national security, but their privacy -- even hypothetical privacy -- is relevant to _me_.
- serge2k 13y agoWhen did linux become a real time OS?
- Theodores 13y ago...and when did some glorified clock radio need a RTOS? Or, put another way, what happened to Americans to go from normal people to these obese things that spend an inordinate amount of time 'sitting in traffic' every day, trashing the planet with their vehicle emissions? Is that trip to Burger King so mission critical from a glorified clock radio perspective that they need to listen to something really important on their iPhone connected wirelessly to the vehicle's 'Real Time Operating System'? Or will plain Android/Linux suffice? Maybe 'Peak Oil' will bring back the street car, bicycles, conversation, buskers and things like bird song and we won't have these quandaries!
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoWhy do you think that if Ford used Linux, your car would not be used for "roving wiretaps." Do you think that if a company uses open source code, they, therefore, make all their uses of it public as well? Also ... I think "podunk" is a bit much.
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