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A pirated car would just be a more free way to access the $10k/yr pay wall you live your life behind. Car-dominant infrastructure is vendor lock in.

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[–] Weslee 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Everything is crackable, I bet the software in the car is as cheaply made as everything else

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Worse, generally. Car manufacturers are completely awful with privacy and also very bad at security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A major revenue stream for the auto companies is deliciously geolocated marketing data. I’m scared that the advertising fat cap will eventually become a sizable portion of their revenue stream and thus their intended use case. Like giant rolling smart tvs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this subscription involves a mobile plan and access to a backend service though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

So you're PAYING for the vulnerabilities this time?

[–] Weslee 1 points 11 months ago

There is plenty of subscription or always online software out there that is cracked and fully working, Adobe products, Microsoft office, Spotify, etc.

Obviously any service that can't be replaced with a free or open source alternative won't work, first thing I think that would be on the chopping block would be anything that uses GPS, though that's just a guess, I don't really have intimate knowledge of this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Many run on a fork of android iirc.