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To: Boogieman

Camel’s nose under the tent. The first step in ‘wrenching’ on a car these days usually involves checking the OBD-II codes. Wanna bet whether or not the next generation of diagnostic data is encrypted....after all, reading the codes might help me ‘figure out’ the car’s software.


51 posted on 04/22/2015 6:12:26 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew
Camel’s nose under the tent. The first step in ‘wrenching’ on a car these days usually involves checking the OBD-II codes. Wanna bet whether or not the next generation of diagnostic data is encrypted....after all, reading the codes might help me ‘figure out’ the car’s software.

Agree - that is coming as well.

72 posted on 04/23/2015 2:25:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: lacrew

“Wanna bet whether or not the next generation of diagnostic data is encrypted....after all, reading the codes might help me ‘figure out’ the car’s software.”

Then don’t buy a car like that. You have every right to exercise your freedom as a consumer to reject a product you don’t like. You don’t have the right to “hack” copyrighted software.

Funny, I never heard many FReepers standing up to defend hacking, software piracy, etc. I guess if you guys want to do it to the computers onboard your cars, then you suddenly discover a convenient exception to your principles.


80 posted on 04/23/2015 6:18:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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