what? NS didn't shout about this religious hate crime?

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Re: what? NS didn't shout about this religious hate crime?

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Nightshade wrote:
Tunnelcat wrote:They can already do that now with the current technology in most modern cars already on the road.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/ca ... ed-feature
Imagine ransomware taking over your car. $10 a trip or we fry your car...etc.
"straight to the dealership we go!"

Or, if the car companies are thinking, they'd have a tech ready to go to your home whenever that happens.
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Re: what? NS didn't shout about this religious hate crime?

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Also it could end up being a situation like what farmers are having to deal with today, where they can no longer perform any repairs or service on their own John Deere tractors and instead have to wait for days and pay a small fortune for an authorized service tech to come out to do simple repairs. Because John Deere locked down the software of their tractors and sues anyone for attempting non-dealership authorized repairs by using an anti-piracy clause in the DMCA. The farmers end up taking huge losses as a result of the excessive downtime because they aren't allowed to fix it themselves even if they know how and legally own the tractor.

So yeah, it isn't really the criminals you have to worry about.

. . . So, what was this topic about again? :P
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Krom wrote: So yeah, it isn't really the criminals you have to worry about.

. . . So, what was this topic about again? :P

At this point.... who cares? :P

Oh and speaking of John Deere, farmers are using firmware from Ukraine (I think) to re-flash their tractors in order to get on with their day.
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Krom wrote:Also it could end up being a situation like what farmers are having to deal with today, where they can no longer perform any repairs or service on their own John Deere tractors and instead have to wait for days and pay a small fortune for an authorized service tech to come out to do simple repairs. Because John Deere locked down the software of their tractors and sues anyone for attempting non-dealership authorized repairs by using an anti-piracy clause in the DMCA. The farmers end up taking huge losses as a result of the excessive downtime because they aren't allowed to fix it themselves even if they know how and legally own the tractor.

So yeah, it isn't really the criminals you have to worry about.

. . . So, what was this topic about again? :P
I don't know where to split this one if it COULD be split. I started out with my road rage-deaths-to-terrorist-deaths comparison and you made the comment about self-driving cars can't come soon enough and I made the comment about cars that can be hacked perhaps causing deaths and slick made the comment about automobile coders being liberals and Muslims creating driverless coffins and Spidey made the comment about nutbags hacking 50 thousand cars and killing thousands and then it all went south into a John-Deere-owners-can't-fix-their-own-tractors territory a big fat hurry courtesy of you and Ferno. :P :lol:
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Re: what? NS didn't shout about this religious hate crime?

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You're welcome. Courtesy of the gruesome twosome.

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