cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/21710275
Volkswagen has inadvertently exposed the personal information of 800,000 electric vehicle owners, including their location data and contact details. The breach, which occurred due to a misconfiguration in the systems of Cariad, VW’s software subsidiary, left sensitive data stored on Amazon Cloud publicly accessible for months. The exposed information included precise GPS data, which allowed […] The post Volkswagen Data Breach: 800,000 Electric Car Owners’ Data Leaked appeared first on Cyber Security News.
Ya, that makes sense, I’m not sure that’s what you’re ever going to get though. I don’t know if all OEMs will move to OTA updates, but that’s still only a portion of what you mention there. Even with the software if it was a dumb car with a completely isolated infotainment, I’m not sure you could ever prevent them from updating it if you had to take it in for a recall that required a software update? Its your car, but its their software.
Ultimately, they are computers on wheels now, and with the requirement of all the new safety features like pedestrian detection, AEB breaking, backup cameras, it all requires a computer, and it’s just going to increase from here.
Yeah I’m not holding out a lot of hope, especially from normal dealership models. If I find something that fits it’ll probably be a secondhand commercial vehicle, a really cheap Chinese off brand I’ll never be allowed to import, or something intended to be recreational along the lines of La Bagnole. Or some kind of diy kit - there were some really cool homebuilt EVs made from scrapped Tesla parts and old ICE vehicles but I’m still just learning about fixing cars so that’s a long way off. For now I’m just driving less and using a bike when I can.