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Stop the music! Booby-trapped song carjacked vehicles – security prof

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Re: OBD worries

"one of the problems is taht cars have a much longer lifecycle than other IT systems"

Vehicles (not just cars) have a much longer lifecycle than the >>typical modern IT department<< can cope with.

There used to be (maybe still are) people out there whose systems were secure and had lifetimes measured in decades. E.g. plenty of computer based control systems that have been out there for decades and are still working, but as they don't need any expertise from Agile DevOps Puppets etc and don't have massive bodgets for upgrades etc, they're of no interest to anyone except the businesses they support.

Even hardware obsolescence is no problem for some of these systems - software like SIMH provides an environment that can be set up to emulate lots of different systems, and quite a few people have implemented FPGA-based emulations of things that software can't reliably emulate.

People (typically, beancounters and shiny MBAs) have chosen to forget How To Do The Job Properly.

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