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Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by lettruthout to c/technology

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The buyer, a New York-area leasing company called American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to each SUV to a new server not owned by the bankrupt EV startup. Since American Lease needs that information to operate the vehicles after Fisker is dissolved, the leasing company has filed an emergency objection to the startup’s liquidation plan.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to each SUV to a new server ...

There is absolutely a way. It might be hard, but there is a way.

[–] lettruthout 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking the same thing, but the article doesn't go into any detail. So the information is on a Fisker server and associated with each vehicle? If so, moving it to another server seems like basic data managment.

[–] vortexsurfer 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not an expert, but the only thing I can imagine is that it's related to certificates or keypairs used for encrypted communication / authentication. Afaik ssl certificates can be issued to a given company, for example, and might become invalid when that company no longer exists. Or it becomes impossible to issue new ones.

Something in that vein, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My other guess was that they've hard-coded an IP address in their firmware and they've already sold off the IP range.

Or they fired all the technical staff and no longer have anyone left that "does the computers" (as my parents say about my job as a software engineer)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I suspect something like the first one, where those cars will call home to a certain IP address, and the fact that the company might not exist one day never crossed anyone's mind.