• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That’s a great observation. They’ve put a lot of resources into their OTA update system. They could abuse that for lots of other things like distributed computing if it were profitable for them to do so, even if it introduces additional risk for their drivers.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Oh they explicitly do that now. They talked about at length during a share holder meeting and its why hackers were able to find another cars photos on the systems they’ve exploited.