Both probably. I’m sure a lot of cars have problems like this, but they just haven’t been found and there are already known vulnerabilities to focus on.
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JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve noticed a lot of issues showing up for the Kia and Hyundai cars security wise. I wonder if they’re having issues because there’s more focus on those cars or if their security is really that bad.
ravhall@discuss.online 1 month ago
ccdfa@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Don’t look into South Korean web security. If their cars are as badly designed as their websites… Yikes
curry@programming.dev 1 month ago
They went balls deep with the devil’s spawn called nprotect.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The kia “challenge” where people were stealing kia cars with a USB cord is because they opted not to include an immobilizer in US models of their cars for nearly a decade. Every other car brand had them as standard. Kia even had them as standard in non US cars, but because the USA stupidly does not have a law about them, kia made the international choice to drastically reduce car security to save a few dollars per car for themselves.
This incredibly greedy and stupid choice, that still does not have an actual fix, has associated their brand with bad security, making them targets.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
I’m still amazed that immobilizers aren’t a legal requirement in the USA, and that Kia would remove them from US models just to save a small amount of money.