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Originally Posted by jaysonstuart
I guess I just don't see the benefit for all that work.
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Sometimes it takes some effort on the consumer's end to ensure lax corporate effort in the products you're using can't hurt you. Whether it's by installing open source firmware on your wifi router because netgear's has 3+ backdoors on the stock and no immediate plans to update or if you have to pull the radio board out of your onstar unit because GM doesn't give you an on/off switch for it.
Considering one of the later hacks on cars was through a dealer backdoor in the wifi being completely accessible to anyone with access to the dealer software and a laptop so they could just walk by, reset the fob to generic and drive the car away in minutes ... and that's just one of a dozen stories in the past couple years. Being in control over your car's connectivity is your right.