Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
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Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
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Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#2One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#3Looking forward to the eventual zero-day presentation at DEFCON :)
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#4you vill own nothing...
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#5One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but why should a person be allowed to maintain use of an item they don’t own and are delinquent on? The unpopular part is that this just removes some friction from an already existing process.
This is assuming there are the appropriate regulations in place to notify and give a reasonable option to rectify the payment issue, but isn’t this exactly how we deal with stuff from homes to furniture? You agree to pay a certain amount and if you are sufficiently delinquent, you lose access to that item because you don’t actually own it yet.
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#6I hereby declare myself a neverfordian.
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#7you vill own nothing...
Did you read the title up to the word "lease"?
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#8One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
We already have car immobilizers on leased cars. This would just make it innate to the car's computer instead of an external tool, making it more reliable and harder to remove.
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#9One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but why should a person be allowed to maintain use of an item they don’t own and are delinquent on? The unpopular part is that this just removes some friction from an already existing process. This is assuming there are the appropriate regulations in place to notify and give a reasonable option to rectify the payment issue, but isn’t this exactly how we deal with stuff fr…
We already have that though, it's called repossession. This feature just removes the human barrier and makes it vulnerable to hacking.
Re: Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars
#10One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but why should a person be allowed to maintain use of an item they don’t own and are delinquent on? The unpopular part is that this just removes some friction from an already existing process. This is assuming there are the appropriate regulations in place to notify and give a reasonable option to rectify the payment issue, but isn’t this exactly how we deal with stuff fr…
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