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Biden signs law forcing all vehicles made 2026 and later to come with a "killswitch" preinstalled.

As well as surveillance monitoring for drivers to detect "abnormal driving" habits.

Potential for remote flaws is concerning.


news.yahoo.com/law-install-kil

consent.yahoo.comYahoo fait partie de la famille de marques Yahoo.
@RTP This would have been a big deal 20 years ago. Today it's considered good because most people are well and truly indoctrinated by the (bipartisan btw) totalitarian regime.
@RTP

manufacturing components of critical systems in a country that is having a tradewar with yours, but which nevertheless has quality control systems to prevent intentional malicious functionality is concerning
writing software in rust is concerning
writing software without unit tests is concerning

this is a :siren: :siren: BLARING WARNING SIREN :siren: :siren: and there's nothing potential about it