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Elon Musk is someone who takes personal offense to criticism of his company/products. If a hack is to showoff an awesome new car, which this is the case, I doubt he would have any issues with it.

On the other hand, if some guy found a major security flaw and posted it all over the internet I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...

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> On the other hand, if some guy found a major security flaw and posted it all over the internet I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

That's a bit much. They'd probably just revoke his license to use their software, leaving him with an expensive brick.

> I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

That sounds like something the government would do to your car if they suspected you were a terrorist.

Or a journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...

Or maybe if your natural gas company's stock were in free-fall?

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