[Scoundreller]

Do users have the ability to stop updates without repercussions?

Is it really a choice that cannot be overridden by the update?

If X declares war on California, will California shutdown every Tesla in X?

Will I be allowed to export my Tesla in 15 years to whatever developing country I like?

[koiz]

What?

Did you think before you typed because 2 of those questions have nothing to do with this.

[Kozoxy]

Will my car be taken over and kill me?

Will other people's cars be taken over and kill me?

Will my car be taken over and be used to drive me to someone who will harm me?

These are life or death concerns and let's not act like they're not ignoring this.

[koiz]

1. No it wont, please show me where this is happening. 2. No it wont, please show me where this is happening. 3. No it wont, please show me where this is happening.

There's concerns and then crazy questions and comments.

[ntsplnkv2]

So no one should try to prevent security flaws because that particular flaw hasn't happened and only fix them when they do?

The question shouldn't be "has it happened." The question should be how realistic is the chance of this happening in the future?

[Scoundreller]

As if technology has never been held hostage before until a ransom is paid.

#1 is easy: “pay us or we will accelerate your car in a random direction in 24h”. The first round will be scareware, the future may not be.

[koiz]

#1 is easy: “pay us or we will accelerate your car in a random direction in 24h”. The first round will be scareware, the future may not be.

Can't happen in a tesla, “so even if somebody would gain access to the car, they cannot gain access to the powertrain or to the braking system.”

And how is this any different than we'll kill you in 24h if you dont pay?

[Scoundreller]

How can that be? You can remotely update the system that does autopilot, and autopilot must have control over throttle/brake/steering.

Even shutting off the lights or disabling the wipers can create big problems.

[koiz]

Systems are built in isolation, communication between them is encrypted.

Disabling wipers or turning off the lights will kill us now? Not forgetting this hasn't happened, hasn't been proved to be possible and is all a theory.

Theories are fine but acting as if tesla is activity ignoring this is funny.

[kentm]

Systems being isolated and containing encrypted communication does not mean that there are no vulnerabilities. Otherwise, TLS would be all that’s needed to secure a website.

[Scoundreller]

They’re clearly not in isolation. We’re not talking about storing data, but sending it and receiving it, so if the messages are encrypted, you just need to feed the code that is doing the encrypting and voila.

Disabling wipers and all lights while driving at high speed with the wipers running full blast can be quickly fatal.

[koiz]

That wasn't a question nor does anyone think you shouldn't try to prevent security flaws. The fact is it wont happen because of the way these systems are built within the car.

Security flaws will always exist but there are limits and just blatantly claiming we're all gonna die because tesla doesn't care about security is a joke.