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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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This is one of those things that might actually serve to push the notion that digital devices (including cars now) should be required to be capable of installing independent operating systems, especially open source ones.
I'd absolutely require military devices to be driven by open source software. And yes, that's a security liability, but security-by-obscurity is an even greater liability.
In the case of consumer devices, open-source access would be a means of protecting the end user from predatory software rife with dark patterns.
Hardly. If anything it's a benefit to security. You don't have to run all the secret stuff using FOSS stuff. Just anything that runs the hardware (like the OS itself).