I must have banged my head and woken up in an alternate universe as something apparently reasonable seems to have emerged from inside the British government. It has issued a guidance on cyber security for "intelligent" vehicles:
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Smart vehicles are increasingly becoming the norm on British roads – allowing drivers to access maps, travel information and new digital radio services from the driving seat.But while smart cars and vans offer new services for drivers, it is feared would-be hackers could target them to access personal data, steal cars that use keyless entry, or even take control of technology for malicious reasons.
Now new government guidance will ensure engineers developing smart vehicles will have to toughen up cyber protections and help design out hacking. The government is also looking at a broader programme of work announced in this year's Queen's speech under the landmark Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Bill that aims to create a new framework for self-driving vehicle insurance.
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The guidance contains eight key principles:
Each principle is fleshed out in slightly more detail and they also point out that the list is not intended to be exhaustive.
Now, dear Soylentils, what would you add to the list to come closer to completeness?
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Wednesday August 09 2017, @08:21AM
That is already governed under the "Government wants backdoors in all software/encryption" laws they are trying to push through. They are doing it right, and making sure the law is as broad as possible, so it can apply to "smart" cars, "smart" phones, "smart" meters, or anything else that has "smart" in its name and/or is connected to the net. The futility of asking for secure systems in one breath, then demanding government backdoors in another, is lost on them of course.
Just means you have to avoid anything "smart" or net connected (that you don't have full control over). I foresee a future of the masses in gilded tech prisons, and a minority of people living on the edges of society as free men, but as social and tech outcasts.
Basically, like those cyberpunk dystopias in sci-fi stories.