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[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just to be very clear: Tesla is not as special. A lot of modern cars are incredibly susceptible to being pwned because "car companies" repeatedly demonstrate that they are car companies and not tech companies because they keep making rookie errors when it comes to security.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Car companies out source to 3rd parties for their car apps. And these 3rd parties just pump things out on aggressive deadlines. A couple former coworkers work(ed?) at one.

Edit - although, given the amount of in house tech at tesla, I'd expect them to mostly do their own software

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If people could see how absolutely shit pretty much every car manufacturers’ software and APIs are they would understand it’s foolish to trust them

I work with pretty much all of them and they’re all trash

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's funny to me that every 100 dollar tablet is better than any in car display i have ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shit on Tesla all you want, but the new ones come with a Ryzen processor. Beats any 100 dollar, and any 300 dollar tablet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If it doesn't have at least a 3070 RTX, I am out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

repeatedly demonstrate that they are car companies and not tech companies because they keep making rookie errors when it comes to security.

Not that "real" tech companies have a better record when speaking about IT security, tbh...