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Re:EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software by binarycrusader on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:47PM (#10461002)
Insurance policies already cover this as "after-market modifications" (the terminology I've generally seen used already).

There really is no cause for concern; things that used to be purely mechanical are now electric. Any modifications made mechanically before could be equally disastrous.

Yes, software modifications are easier to hide, but that it is a price worth paying for the greater general freedom of everyone.

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Re:EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software by nashashmi on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:59PM (#10461475)
> Yes, software modifications are easier to hide

Not if you hash the software and find its been adjusted. In that sense it is easier to detect.

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Re:EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software by Qwertious on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:46PM (#10466048)
What happens if the user modifies the software, the modified software causes a malfunction, the user resets the software to the factory version, then takes it in to a shop while claiming they never modified the software in the first place?
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