In the meantime, fun!

[Forsooth]

i know they use that port for diagnostics (check engine light),


but fuck-damn why make an electronic control if 99% of the end users don't have an interface device?

[Sita]

I've been expecting to hear something like this from the first day I learned that cars had brains.

[Triple Zero]

Whose idea was it to network ANYTHING the user can access to the FUCKING BRAKES, either directly or indirectly?

What I heard, all those things (inside the car) have to be connected. It's stupid and it should be designed better, but for instance the car radio must have access to the central diagnostics system (or whatever it's called) because it needs to be able to interrupt the music if something's wrong with the car, just like it does with traffic jam information and such.

I'm not explaining this right. There was a good reason for it for everything to be connected, it was a stupid reason, but a really good stupid reason, in the same sense that an ingrown toenail is really good at growing, but also doing it wrong.

Anyway, yes. Cory Doctorow said it, you're gonna put a computer in your body, and then put your body in a computer, but the users can't really control them (for their own safety, of course, just like they say about iOS), yet the bad guys (criminal gov or criminal organisations alike) will always find a way! Vrrrrrrrroooommmmm