Slashdot Mirror
BlackBerry Working With Automakers On Antivirus Tool For Your Car (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: BlackBerry is working with at least two automakers to develop a security service that would remotely scan vehicles for computer viruses and tell drivers to pull over if they were in critical danger, according to a financial analyst. The service, which would also be able to install security patches to an idle car, is being tested by luxury automakers Aston Martin and Range Rover. The service could be launched as early as next year, generating about $10 a month per vehicle for BlackBerry, according to Papageorgiou, who has followed BlackBerry for more than 15 years. Vehicles increasingly rely on dozens of computers that connect to each other as well as the internet, mobile networks and Bluetooth communications systems that make them vulnerable to remote hacks.
...knowing BlackBerry is involved.
Only apps can app apps, NOT LUDDITE cars!
Apps!
If your car needs an antivirus tool, it is not safe.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
This is a thing? This is needed? Why? Why not keep the firmware on the car updated more often so you don't have some tard with a bluetooth dongle open up the door in your 100k BMW?
Youtube has massive examples of this and it's more the blame of the Car Manufacturers than anything else for shitty programming.
Wheel of Time: Book by Book and Sumview (summary review) Bigdady92 style: http://bigdady92.blogspot.com/
http://www.cantechletter.com/2...
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/200...
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
FUCK OFF WITH THIS "NETWORK ALL THE THINGS" BULLSHIT!
Until then, I'll gladly stay with my 90s funcar. Basic, lightweight, fairly quick with megasquirt III. Sure, it can't wipe my ass for me, but that also means I don't have to worry about hackers screwing with my ass. And nobody wants ass hackers.
Range (Land) Rover has a consistent Worst Rank with Consumer Reports.
With how far up the government's ass John Chen is, expect that it will contain backdoors to have your car pull over anytime the government wants it to.
Hush, you're not seeing the advantage of this situation. People who have trouble operating a toaster will finally be stripped of their license to pilot a large, fast deathmobile (said innerworkings they understand possibly less of than their home PC). They'll need to get an A+ certification just to drive during daylight hours.
What this means is: in five years, only techs will be driving vehicles; everyone else will be on bikes.
If my car is susceptible to a virus in the first year via hardware OR software, I will be invoking the lemon law and getting anew car. A car is not a computer and had better be safe and secure while I am on the road. Adding software to a car should bring software UP to the level of safety and security of a car, not lower the car to the level of safety and security of barely tested and uncertified crapware.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Excellent!!!
Since antivirus programs work so well for computers.
And Blackberry, a leading industry innovator...
We are saved!!!
Car-Jackers currently report to your car that one of your tires is flat, encouraging you to pull over. Now car-jackers will be able to report that your car has a virus..... I guess that that's progress, all in the name of security.
So you decided to connect cars and shit to the Internet and results have been gloomy and unpleasant? Facing multi-million dollar lawsuits, bad PR and expenditures related to massive recall campaigns?
Don't sweat choosing between dangerous and irresponsible use of technology and juicy perpetual cyber stalking related profits.
Path to success is paved by doubling down on "defense in depth" shell games in a bid to prevent sufficient number of critically injured whiners and crying babies from coming to the otherwise obvious conclusion.
Virus scanners in particular are a fabulous choice:
- Positive public perception
- Subscription fees (or else) show you care
- Stunning record against unknown and targeted threats
- Marvelous record of scanners leveraged as vectors to compromise otherwise secure systems.
just wait the big roaming bill the car picks a non us cell tower and you get hit with the $15-$20 a meg data roaming bill.
Will this antivirus follow the route taken by the IT security products industry?
Start off small with a single tool for a single purpose, then grow bloated with "features", until the computer can't even get to a functioning desktop until you've had 2 or 3 cups of coffee and a danish?
Imagine turning your key or pressing the "start" button, and having to wait 10 minutes before you can drive off, and then the car gets slower and slower over the months as more and more features are added.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
They should get John McAffee to work on an antivirus tool for our cars.
'Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we announced the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform, a set of services built on the Microsoft Azure cloud'
Its really nice to read complete blog. and i found that information in this blog is good for who want to have basic site design.
buy email lists
Like, I'll totally trust NSABerry for my "security."
With the dashboards of cars increasingly looking like the bridge of a galaxy class starship, especially with manual control disappearing, let's get this going before the morning commute becomes the morning DDOS attack. Not to mention the potential havoc with sensors and their output. With self-driving cars becoming a huge thing sooner than expected, I would rather not have my cars steering hijacked in exchange for ransom. Maybe BlackBerry could get in on the iot thing. Lack of forethought has made a pretty fucked up situation out of that.
All-in-all I consider all things electronic security woes to be growing pains. Modern computing is a whirlwind of rapid advancements leading to places that could not have been predicted even recently. Having the security problems we have, and fighting back against them is a good thing that can only make better software systems.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior.
Looks like I will be avoiding cars running the Windows OS.
...would allow any remote device to access a cars "control systems", especially when the car is running
...would allow any kind of connection between the "control systems", and other systems like entertainment
...would not have a "physical" off switch on the communication chips, so when you are not at a service center(with the proper equipment) there is absolutely no way to talk to the vital systems.
If the gps/navigation system of the entertainment system get hacked, one should be ably to just turn them off.
People were saying for years that Blackberry's were spying on people and they were marginalized as conspiracy theorists. Eventually it was proven that Blackberry's were indeed spying on people and could record conversations even if the phone appeared to be turned off. You really want those assholes all up in your vehicle? This is Slashdot, I know many of you remember this.
A car with veeery few sw components and all of them not connected to anything outside the car.
Ah, I also have desktops and server without any antivirus, they are FOSS or "traditional" *nix OSes.