Re:Thieves Break Into Cars Using Mysterious 'Black Box'
by just2n on Friday February 28, 2014 @09:10PM
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I don't think "government" means "good engineering", I think that it should be thoroughly vetted by sufficient expertise.
I'm not sure if the FDA or FAA are capable of doing that, given how the government is really, really bad at building or contracting software (in general).
If only we could have some kind of standardized software to power these devices that is built by the community at large and thoroughly reviewed for correctness. Even at the cost of limiting hardware, I think that's an option.
Re:Thieves Break Into Cars Using Mysterious 'Black Box'
by awor on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:17PM
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It'd be neat if they could come to some sort of a standard on this so that its an open, reviewable piece of software that handles the crypto side of things and then passes that off and they (the Automakers) can "customize" the rest of the software all they want.
Somewhat (but also not at all) like a more advanced ODBII[0]
You need government approval (FDA or FAA respectively) to bring a product to market. Are you sure you want that kind of bureaucratic overhead (and the associated politics) in your car and home alarm?