Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station

Re:Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack ga... by kyubey on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @04:57PM (#37757472)

Stating "You get what you pay for" is a strange way to both blame the victims & attempt to absolve multi-billion dollar corporations for not including a standardized piece of security equipment, when you consider that every major manufacturer sells vehicles firmly in the same price bracket - up to half the price of your reported average (we love to forget about outliers, don't we) that have this equipment.

Pedantry about what security was advertised or not will not make a compelling case. What a strange thing to try to argue.

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Re:Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack ga... by olyjohn on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:43PM (#37757980)

Nobody even knows what an immobilizer is or how it works. They put key in car and go. People don't even read the manuals that come with the car. Most people don't even read signs along the freeways while they're driving.

This kind of willful ignorance about cars goes so far that insurance companies willfully chose to insure these cars against theft, and claimed they had no idea that the cars didn't have immobilizers. And now they are suing the manufacturers. It's the insurance company's job to evaluate risk. All they had to do was read the fucking manual and if it didn't say something in there, ask.

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