Right, they are releasing the code for controlling everything, but not for rewriting the firmware to allow all the controlling code to work. So that might delay malicious hackers a few weeks at the most.

I guess this author missed the part of the story where they plug in a Sprint Cell phone and find random IP addresses of cars traveling on highways across the country giving them easy access to do anything they wanted to any of those cars.

Makes me wonder what it would take to solder the internals of a firewall between the cellular modem and the rest of the car’s systems, rigging a console cable port out the dash somewhere. Just for fun.

Because the Infotainment system might need information from it. Speed comes to mind.

My first reaction was that this should be a recall.