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Re: Onstar - throwing the baby out with the bath water
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:28:27 -0600
On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Alex Eckelberry wrote:
I'm not so sure. While I empathize with the mother, Onstar does have a point--they can't reactivate the Onstar system without someone pressing the "Blue button". A software design/architecture issue, which could undoubtedly be fixed going forward.
Yes, they will probably looking at changing that. Which opens another can of worms. How do you know the caller's not just trying to steal the car or something from the car? Stolen Visa card + access to DMV registration records + OnStar = access to any car in the mall parking lot.
From the report:
Tampa Police, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, and Triple AAA had responded, but asked them to reach out to OnStar first.
Since when does having OnStar mean that the fire/police won't respond? I can understand if they were busy with higher priority life threatening issues. I can understand if they wanted to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, and OnStar could do that at a lower cost to the jurisdiction. Would be nice if ABCActionNews had gone into more depth there.... But AAA? Aren't they _paid_ to respond? --Chris _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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