Your car’s weakest spot may not be in the car
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Modern cars are constantly connected to the outside world. This makes them vulnerable to hackers who want to take control of the vehicle remotely. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have found that IT vulnerabilities have shifted from the car’s own computer systems to apps and cloud services connected to it.
    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 days ago

      and regardless of whether it’s an ICE/PHEV or BEV.

      The only important difference is that older, unconnected ICE cars exist, while older, unconnected EVs don’t. It annoys me that I can’t own an EV because of it.

    • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Tesla has the biggest “network” of connected vehicles, and are hated and despised by many so are a likely first target…

      Though you’re right, and I won’t own any internet connected car, regardless of make, model, gender, or method of propulsion. Hell I don’t even drive an Automatic Transmission.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        11 days ago

        Tesla has the biggest “network” of connected vehicles

        No they don’t, their market share of all cars sold globally within the last decade is far from the biggest.

        hated and despised by many so are a likely first target

        I think this may be a bubble we’re in. The vast majority seems to not really care either positively or negatively about Tesla. It’s just a car to them.

        • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Tesla has the biggest “network” of connected vehicles

          No they don’t, their market share of all cars sold globally within the last decade is far from the biggest.

          I think I mean they have the largest percentage of their cars that are connected to the same homebase… Like…all of them.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 days ago

            I think I mean they have the largest percentage of their cars that are connected to the same homebase… Like…all of them.

            Tesla may have the largest percentage of their own cars connected, but they don’t have the most number of connected cars. That would likely be GM with their 30 year old Onstar service.

            Tesla has only sold 8.9 million vehicles over the whole life of the company, while GM has over 12 million Onstar connected cars sold.

            • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
              1·
              11 days ago

              Valid point… And yes, Onstar is a huge vulnerability…as is pointed out in every movie where a car gets hacked for one reason or another. ;-)

              I’m a ford guy, and in my Mustang, the Sync unit is unplugged, because fuck Sync.

        • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
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          11 days ago

          74 million people voted for Trump. They’re the ones.

          But they’re also the reason I avoid Tesla’s in traffic… It might be the car, it might be the driver, but it’s a safe bet that something stupid is going to happen.