433,000 Ford cars recalled because of software bug - would you have preferred an internet update?

By Graham Cluley posted 3 Jul 2015
 
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Clearly its frustrating for those 433,000 car owners, and a major nuisance for the car dealerships that will have to apply the software fix even if it only takes a few minutes in the showroom.
 
Wouldn’t it have been much less of a nuisance if those Ford cars had been able to update themselves via the internet instead?
 
Well, yes, maybe that would have been a smoother way to roll out the software patch to all those cars – but don’t forget there are significant security challenges with that approach too.
 
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