I can’t help but feel if it had the potential to hurt future car sales (ie: still selling new holdens) they would patch out the exploit with an update.
It’s not just Holdens suffering this type of theft shitfuckery. It’s a common issue for many other manufacturer’s brands including many GM brands within the states. And they’ve got ongoing sales to protect…
Despite vehicle security being part of the design rules, and the utter failure of the system to secure the vehicle meaning it’s not fit for purpose, manufacturers don’t see an issue and no regulator anywhere in the world is doing anything… Business as usual…
And herein lies the problem. It’s all proprietary stuff even when built on open source software…
Companies no longer care to provide any software support whatsoever for those defective vehicles they sold into the market whether they’ve abandoned the market or not…
Yet manufacturers will always deflect with “nothing wrong”, “govco should regulate these devices” and if tha5 doesn’t work scream “proprietary” and “too costly” when pushed for repairs. The fact is they are just lazy gits that don’t care about the defective crap they’ve sold and there are no laws to make them care and regulators are captured.
If they won’t support the products themselves, they should be forced by law to open source their stuff so as a fallback the open source community could at least have a look and they’d probably do a better job fixing up the software deficiencies that these recalcitrant manufactures have no desire to address themselves…