That's great, but when are they going to properly address and mitigate the potentially massively lethal cyber- and national-security issues made possible by the tech?
Or do we have to talk only about what they want us to talk?
Or do we have to talk only about what they want us to talk?
Any security patch will already come too late -- when it comes to cars, it must not have security problems to begin with.
The cybersecurity model just isn't safe for this. It's up to them to fix this, not me.
Look into the history of automotive safety to understand how ridiculous this sounds. Cars were total death traps for many, many decades.
No product is bulletproof from a security standpoint, and there's no way to make something bulletproof. What are you suggesting they do?
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Is it really a choice that cannot be overridden by the update?
If X declares war on California, will California shutdown every Tesla in X?
Will I be allowed to export my Tesla in 15 years to whatever developing country I like?
Did you think before you typed because 2 of those questions have nothing to do with this.
Will other people's cars be taken over and kill me?
Will my car be taken over and be used to drive me to someone who will harm me?
These are life or death concerns and let's not act like they're not ignoring this.
There's concerns and then crazy questions and comments.
The question shouldn't be "has it happened." The question should be how realistic is the chance of this happening in the future?
#1 is easy: “pay us or we will accelerate your car in a random direction in 24h”. The first round will be scareware, the future may not be.
Can't happen in a tesla, “so even if somebody would gain access to the car, they cannot gain access to the powertrain or to the braking system.”
And how is this any different than we'll kill you in 24h if you dont pay?
Even shutting off the lights or disabling the wipers can create big problems.
Disabling wipers or turning off the lights will kill us now? Not forgetting this hasn't happened, hasn't been proved to be possible and is all a theory.
Theories are fine but acting as if tesla is activity ignoring this is funny.
Disabling wipers and all lights while driving at high speed with the wipers running full blast can be quickly fatal.
Sorry you are wrong.
If one system absolutely requires communication with the other to function, I would never call them isolated.
Security flaws will always exist but there are limits and just blatantly claiming we're all gonna die because tesla doesn't care about security is a joke.
What are they doing about it that's effective? They are ignoring this.