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sentinelthesalty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ignisnex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, absolutely. I do not, however, like the idea of “Pay us $1M or we disable your brakes on the highway” kind of ransomware attacks.

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  • ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is your point that you’re more likely to experience security vulnerabilities when using FOSS? Cause past a certain point of development that’s not generally the case.

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Perhaps they simply mean they don’t want it internet connected at all. If it needs updates, have it be a device, USB or OBD or something, that would be the only vector for updates/direct OS control. Sure, allow internet for some features maybe, but isolate updates and the anything serious from remote tampering.

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    • Ignisnex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      FOSS wasn’t specifically mentioned, but jailbreaking was. I’m sure most FOSS stuff would be fine, passed a certain point like you said. I’m from an era where jailbreaking and installing whatever you’d like on a device was the wild west, and have seen nasty stuff accidentally sideloaded. Giving people the option to infect their cars with ransomware could get people killed, so not opening that can of worms isn’t the worst idea necessarily.

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