Tesla to hire hackers at Def Con to ensure security of its cars

[JumpinJackFlash]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;45704637]With older cars someone could come along and steal it a lot easier than with a newer car. That's basically just really crude hacking.[/QUOTE]Here's how you piss off a car thief:

Measure intake dimensions
Shape wooden block(s) to fit inside dimensions, include tiny a hole to allow some air to pass
Add a handle for easy removal, or attach a chain
Apply blocks when parking car

Any attempt to turn the engine over will result in the blocks being pulled tight and it will choke the engine. Bonus points if the air hole is just big enough to idle the engine and nothing more. This will defeat nearly all car thieves who get past initial security measures. Crude security for crude hacking. Another fun one is a manual valve for the fuel line, or a hidden e-brake handle.

[Korova]

[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;45704025]And this is why I want an older vehicle: you don't have to worry about its technology getting hacked.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, you only need to worry about the liquid gas igniting on impact safely.

[TheDecryptor]

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;45705642]Er, I meant the instruments, not the bigass tablet.
The tablet can run whatever, it doesn't do anything important for safe driving as far as I know, but the dashboard should really be running a minimal RTOS or something similar. Like what other cars do.

Or even just have some simple analogue instruments.

Big desktop operating systems just have a tendency of crashing that these minimal custom ones don't.[/QUOTE]

Only because they're comparatively smaller and simpler, less code makes for less possible mistakes.

How often does a modern OS crash though? I lose power more often than I experience a kernel panic/BSOD.

[BryBreadmin]

The more complex the code, the more likely it is to crash. The basic Linux kernel and some small amount of code over it would have achieved the same results and likely would have been much more stable. It seems silly that they used Ubuntu for it.

[Cornish]

[QUOTE=winsanity;45705615]What would you have it run?[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.templeos.org/"]the only os worth running[/URL]