It turns out that the right-to-repair law passed in Massachusetts and uphold by courts “does essentially mean there would be no proper security controls preventing someone from remotely connecting into a car” and may not go into effect after all, although it’s complicated.
Here is ArsTechnica’s story – which mentions something I didn’t now, a federal right-to-repair law percolating through Congress. No way the GOP will back it, though.
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Remote hacking of cars has been demonstrated by DARPA, 60 minutes, and various white hat hackers, via telecom “saftey” systems provided by vendors or insurance companies (discounts for safe drivers demonstrated by a temonitorjng system. . The security issues are in the Telcom connection, not the internal car reporting systems.