[jacquesm]

Center consoles have been used quite successfully as beachheads by hackers to be able to get into more important systems because car manufacturers are typically utterly clueless when it comes to security. So obscurity is a very large part of their security. Of course that doesn't really work with the most motivated parties (car thieves and their captive techies) having a field day with this.

Hyundai and Kia are reportedly so bad that they ended up paying out a large amount of money to compensate owners.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/hyundai-kia-agree-200-million-...

But don't worry, it's been fixed now. Probably.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

If it's security critical, it definitely needs to be FOSS and user patchable; obscurity is not a reasonable strategy.

[jacquesm]

Agreed, but that won't happen until some regulator wises up to this being a way to reduce vehicle theft considerably.