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Yes. I can't wait until self-driving car ransomware appears.

The amount of rage the customers will feel towards the makers of whatever non-secure self-driving or "connected" cars receive the ransomware should give those car makers a nice kick in the behind to get their act together.

Then we'll see how quick the car makers will be about implementing features such as "unlocking your car remotely from the beach."

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I wouldn't say I "can't wait" for car viruses, but I do worry about all the stupid remote/automated features being advertised these days. You just know it's going to be exploited, and cars are at the top of my list of things that should be as safe and secure as possible.

That mostly boils down to lowering the attack surface.

Individual cars doing their own thing, no problem. Cars talking to cloud, big privacy problem, potential security problem. Cars talking to each other locally, smaller privacy problem, but bigger security problem.

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