ITT: nobody so far advocating "responsible disclosure", because this is the sort of vendor abusiveness that made "full disclosure" clearly a good idea, and an essential protection for the interests of the end user.
The Internet of Things will recapitulate all the painful experience of how this stuff works out we just spent twenty years getting sorted out in the software field.
Even though these cars aren't a part of the internet of things (yet), situations like these are the exact reasons why I'm not enthusiastic about it. Honestly, I hate it.
Sysadmins will be in work until we're 100 if we want to be, cleaning up after this rubbish. Like elderly COBOL programmers, making the big bucks after retirement.
The Internet of Things will recapitulate all the painful experience of how this stuff works out we just spent twenty years getting sorted out in the software field.