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VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800,000 Electric Vehicles (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 1 day ago by minyaen@lemmy.ml to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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If emphasis wasn't already concentrated on the security of these connected vehicles, major oversight obviously...

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[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

maybe we could start to reduce the cost of electric cars by not overloading them with all the connected internet of shit crap?!?

i know the kids in china like to have karaoke machines in their cars... but i kinda just want bluetooth for my music and thats it.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It doesn't cost them much of anything to include the modem (which is the main problem), and the data they receive is very valuable. I agree that less tech is good and all new cars (not just electric) are full of stuff I would prefer they came without. But the connected Internet shit also allows for software updates OTA. That's a double edged sword. Without it you'd have to take your vehicle to a dealer if it needed a necessary software update (for a recall for instance). But obviously, having it means they can do things to your car without you even necessarily knowing or understanding what is happening (risky, for multiple reasons, including removing features with a botched software update).