<story><title>Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Hey, almost no one really wants smart TVs that phone home every minute, yet nobody makes modern dumb TVs anymore (or at least privacy respecting smart TVs).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s cartel behavior. Producers just silently agree to not do stuff that would disadvantage them on the long term.&lt;p&gt;Everybody keeps going on about &amp;quot;yeah, but someone will undercut them, free market, bla bla&amp;quot;, but it never happens in practice.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I have an older car that missed Carplay by one year.  I want to replace the rather crappy dashboard screen with poor touch sensitivity with a nice new carPlay dashboard so i can navigate and listen to my podcasts.&lt;p&gt;Last time I asked it was 1500 quid plus install from the dealer.  I could probably get under a grand now.&lt;p&gt;If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not be close to the important stuff&lt;p&gt;Cars should be the mobile equivalent of a dumb TV screen. But no-one wants to make them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>It came up in the last thread about dumb tv&amp;#x27;s - they exist. Wal-mart sells Sceptre tv&amp;#x27;s. 4K resolution, dumb tv&amp;#x27;s. And they&amp;#x27;re super cheap; they&amp;#x27;re actually cheaper than smart tv&amp;#x27;s. I have no idea why people say they don&amp;#x27;t exist. They&amp;#x27;re just not popular.&lt;p&gt;Outside of HN, people do want smart features, from what I can tell, and don&amp;#x27;t even consider that their TV is a privacy concern.</text></comment>
<story><title>Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Hey, almost no one really wants smart TVs that phone home every minute, yet nobody makes modern dumb TVs anymore (or at least privacy respecting smart TVs).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s cartel behavior. Producers just silently agree to not do stuff that would disadvantage them on the long term.&lt;p&gt;Everybody keeps going on about &amp;quot;yeah, but someone will undercut them, free market, bla bla&amp;quot;, but it never happens in practice.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I have an older car that missed Carplay by one year.  I want to replace the rather crappy dashboard screen with poor touch sensitivity with a nice new carPlay dashboard so i can navigate and listen to my podcasts.&lt;p&gt;Last time I asked it was 1500 quid plus install from the dealer.  I could probably get under a grand now.&lt;p&gt;If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not be close to the important stuff&lt;p&gt;Cars should be the mobile equivalent of a dumb TV screen. But no-one wants to make them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anshorei</author><text>An increasing amount of people I know don&amp;#x27;t have a TV screen and show no interest in getting one. They just use computer screens to watch instead. Not that that&amp;#x27;s better for privacy since they&amp;#x27;ve at the same time been switching from physical discs to online data-harvesting services like Netflix. So they&amp;#x27;re really just building DIY smart TV&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>