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Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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> such devices often run on outdated Android versions, which have unpatched vulnerabilities and are no longer supported with updates. Many of them NEVER received a single update ever. There are so many shady companies producing TV boxes with no plan to ever provide any updates. Unless one of the larger brands make such a device, I don't see any reason to recommend anything but the ChromeCast or whatever Google calls…

Nvidia's SHIELD is also okay, probably better than Roku even so far.

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #2

What's going to be even more fun is when the cars gets hacked, given that their are 100+ (200+) car makers, specially with ev cars (WSJ claimed 140+ makers in China) Bloomberg claimed 500+. I'm not dissing Chinese makers. I'm only sure that like everything there's an exponential curve of how serious companies take security. I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new…

That makes me think, will we have car theft in the future where someone hacks your self driving car and it makes off on itself in the night? The next day you wake up to notice that your car has left you for someone else?

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #2

What's going to be even more fun is when the cars gets hacked, given that their are 100+ (200+) car makers, specially with ev cars (WSJ claimed 140+ makers in China) Bloomberg claimed 500+. I'm not dissing Chinese makers. I'm only sure that like everything there's an exponential curve of how serious companies take security. I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new…

That makes me think, will we have car theft in the future where someone hacks your self driving car and it makes off on itself in the night? The next day you wake up to notice that your car has left you for someone else?

Only a matter of time IMO, and quite the short one at that. Car thieves are an adaptive bunch.

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #2

What's going to be even more fun is when the cars gets hacked, given that their are 100+ (200+) car makers, specially with ev cars (WSJ claimed 140+ makers in China) Bloomberg claimed 500+. I'm not dissing Chinese makers. I'm only sure that like everything there's an exponential curve of how serious companies take security. I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new…

That makes me think, will we have car theft in the future where someone hacks your self driving car and it makes off on itself in the night? The next day you wake up to notice that your car has left you for someone else?

I think this is one of the reasons (among many) why self driving cars will largely be robo taxi's.

I'd trust google to maintain the security in a fleet of robo taxi's where cars can be brought in, modified or replaced relatively quickly over Tesla trying to convince individual owners to do the same...

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #2

What's going to be even more fun is when the cars gets hacked, given that their are 100+ (200+) car makers, specially with ev cars (WSJ claimed 140+ makers in China) Bloomberg claimed 500+. I'm not dissing Chinese makers. I'm only sure that like everything there's an exponential curve of how serious companies take security. I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new…

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Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #2

What's going to be even more fun is when the cars gets hacked, given that their are 100+ (200+) car makers, specially with ev cars (WSJ claimed 140+ makers in China) Bloomberg claimed 500+. I'm not dissing Chinese makers. I'm only sure that like everything there's an exponential curve of how serious companies take security. I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new…

That makes me think, will we have car theft in the future where someone hacks your self driving car and it makes off on itself in the night? The next day you wake up to notice that your car has left you for someone else?

Self driving cars aren't fully autonomous yet. They occasionally require human intervention to make decisions, which I would guess makes it difficult to steal these cars without being detected. They're constantly cloud connected and so they know where the car is at all times. I imagine these factors may deter theft of self driving cars for a while longer.

Repossessing a self driving car, on the other hand...

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

#38

> such devices often run on outdated Android versions, which have unpatched vulnerabilities and are no longer supported with updates. Many of them NEVER received a single update ever. There are so many shady companies producing TV boxes with no plan to ever provide any updates. Unless one of the larger brands make such a device, I don't see any reason to recommend anything but the ChromeCast or whatever Google calls…

It'd be nice if they weren't collecting your data though.

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

#39

> such devices often run on outdated Android versions, which have unpatched vulnerabilities and are no longer supported with updates. Many of them NEVER received a single update ever. There are so many shady companies producing TV boxes with no plan to ever provide any updates. Unless one of the larger brands make such a device, I don't see any reason to recommend anything but the ChromeCast or whatever Google calls…

99% of these devices are purchased to view pirated content. You think the guy selling boxes off Craigslist should be providing support? The company who manufactured the computer?

You are responsible to update your device.

Re: Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

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post #30

> such devices often run on outdated Android versions, which have unpatched vulnerabilities and are no longer supported with updates. Many of them NEVER received a single update ever. There are so many shady companies producing TV boxes with no plan to ever provide any updates. Unless one of the larger brands make such a device, I don't see any reason to recommend anything but the ChromeCast or whatever Google calls…

A HTPC (with an Intel N100, etc) can work amazingly well too.

I never got mine working as a chrome cast target. Does that work now?
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