VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electric Vehicles

Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by mulmen on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:58PM (#42528433)

"Shipping the private key" does not meet the bar for "good". You still need a way to establish trust in your key distribution and also implement the system correctly. The proper way to secure access to a physical thing you own is to only communicate directly with that thing.

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by amluto on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:56AM (#42532332)

This is ridiculous. It would take heroic effort for VW to prevent themselves from silently uploading malicious firmware to VW cars. There are ways to do this, but it’s also a separate problem from the problem that should actually be solved here.

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by mulmen on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:32PM (#42541827)

Uh, if the only communication with the car is direct and physical then how does VW upload anything?

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by amluto on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:11PM (#42542629)

If the only communication is direct and physical, then this entire discussion is moot.

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by mulmen on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:06AM (#42557031)

Exactly.

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