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“A Tesla can literally steal itself” (twitter.com/uncledoomer)
8 points by DyslexicAtheist on March 19, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


That is a text book definition of a backdoor. The car is not yours. It's Tesla's.


It's not yours until it's paid.


> ...until it's paid.

Unfortunately with our phones, OSes, thermostats, doorbells, cameras, PCs, TVs, electric scooters, fans and cars, there is always a way for a manufacturer to find, command and control any of their products remotely even after you paid for it.

So no. It still isn't 'yours' until you can completely and fully control it. That means no backdoors or automatic updates behind your back even after you turn them off.


You're putting a lot of faith in proper and reliable recordkeeping.


So doing to cars what's already been done to digital media. Well, I expect there to be a similar response by those technically inclined. Eg. Tesla crackers.

That's assuming they managed to achieve full autonomous driving and got through the legal barriers to this.




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