Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move
Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move
just a reminder that if it’s really obviously stupid then there’s probably more to the story
The Verge now reports that Hyundai is offering a security patch
so this is a story of a story of an offer on the hyundai website to upgrade the cars security
and ive stopped caring this is such sloppy garbage i expect from american technology websites
Some day, car companies are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they are software companies with a manufacturing department.
The rest of the software industry learned this the hard way. If you only let paying customers have access to security patches, the effects will spill over to your paying customers and everyone else. It’s why Microsoft let’s you have “Activate Windows” sit on your screen for years and still gives you updates.
Keep in mind that the car-stealing device reportedly costs around $20,000, so the likelihood of it being in the ownership of a thief isn’t extremely high.
What is this magic device that costs so much?