Won’t be “some “Grease Monkey”, it will be “some coder”
That’s probably correct. It would take a certain type of expertise to effectively tinker with software.
Won’t be “some coder”, it will be an AI “hackbot”.
Actually, the defensive measures are getting quite sophisticated. First, everything is integrated into the ECU (no more separate black boxes where you can snip the wires and connect a resistor or even intelligent circuit), and every logical electronic component has to be present and respond at power up time or the vehicle won’t start or goes into degraded mode.