Comment by RealityVoid

8 hours ago

All I can say is that shivers go down my spine what could happen if one of those OEM's that have remote updates possible would get their keys compromised. You could brick hundreds of thousands of vehicles. I would be scared shitless to store those things.

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IAmBroom  8 hours ago

Forget bricking them. How about driving their batteries to overheat? An entire fleet across a city enflamed...

  • SchemaLoad  2 hours ago

    If they were designed to do that from the start maybe. But usually low level stuff like battery management wouldn't be accessible to the main updatable OS. A lot of it isn't even software controlled, but physical parts designed to pop before things catch fire.

  • RealityVoid  7 hours ago

    Not sure that would be possible on demand, but... Yeah, there are tons of options there. Absolutely terrifying.

    For context, for a short while I wrote SW for auto BCM's albeit the security stuff not the drive your batteries stuff.

    • wil421  7 hours ago

      Didn’t North Korea supposedly start a data center fire to cover their tracks? I believe they attached the UPS batteries.