Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US

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• WesternInfidels@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a great story to illuminate the large number of problems that could be addressed by decent public transit, better options for walking and biking, etc.

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• OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And here I was thinking these blow-and-go contraptions were self contained. I should have known better.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They want to be able to remotely disable vehicles, but in the process have made us vulnerable to all sophisticated actors to do so. Our leaders have their priorities all screwed up.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Once again proving backdoors are fucking idiotic.

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  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It makes sense - a self-contained device can be circumvented. A connected solution is much, much harder to fool

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Please explain further because I do not believe that.

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• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hegseth is gonna be even more angry than born normal when he can’t drive from point a to point b because of this.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s why he lives in the base. So he doesn’t have to admit he got his license revoked.

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  • UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, I too would be angry had I been born normal.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only those cars that needed a breathalyzer for reasons.

  Not much of a loss, I’d say.

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Per bidens Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, that’s going to be every new car starting this year

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    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not sure how I didn’t hear of this already. Apparently it’s not necessarily a breathalyzer, but the proposals include a camera facing the driver to monitor them and passive monitoring of the air in the car.

      I don’t drunk drive and barely even drink, but that’s horrifying. I can’t believe this went under the radar for me.

      More garbage that is going to break and cost thousands of dollars to fix in addition to all the violations of privacy. Cars are already advertising to people. Can you imagine if they put a camera inside the vehicle? Why not invest in public transit? That’s a great way to decrease impaired drivers of all stripes as well as help people in general. All this does is funnel more money into auto makers. I am so upset that this is the first I’m hearing of it.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    2027 mandates every car have this. Its infuriating.

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• arcine@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why you use the ones with the weird salt inside. No computer, no problem !

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