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Re:Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, tes... by MereInterest on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @08:42AM (#32495502)
For devices that connect to the internet, such as for updating maps and real-time traffic data, does the lack of security updates mean that your 2-ton moving vehicle is now somebody else's 2-ton moving vehicle?
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Re:Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, tes... by pjmorris on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:35AM (#32496153)
Which is actually an argument for non-updatability.
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Re:Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, tes... by MereInterest on Thursday August 18, 2022 @07:55AM (#32508269)
Completely agreed. Mainly, I wanted to make a distinction between "cannot be updated" and "can be updated but isn't". The former is a design choice that removes entire classes of vulnerabilities. The latter is a usage choice that keeps vulnerabilities open.
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