Originally posted September 25th in the Boston Herald. This is a letter about right to repair sent to the editor by Paul Roberts, founder, SecuRepairs.org and signed by myself among many others. To the editor: Halloween came early to the Bay State this year. For the past two months, the airwaves have been filled with … Continue reading Letter: Scare tactics have nothing to do with car repair
When I wrote my first book in 2012, I pitched the publisher on cooking recipes for cloud security. My vision was that one page would describe how to make an historic meal (such as Royal Navy spotted dick) and then the rest of the chapter would be cloud technical steps (such as how to setup … Continue reading How Fixing Howitzers in Ukraine is Like Baking a Cake
Massachusetts has just voted by wide margin to extend their 2013 right to repair law to cover connected-car platforms and telematics (tracking and analysis) services after 2022. The aim was to fight the growing problem of automakers restricting their proprietary diagnostics tools to anyone other than official franchised dealer networks. When the law came into … Continue reading New Massachusetts Law Requires Vehicle Data Be Made Accessible
A month ago I was on a call with some top security experts in the industry. We were discussing my upcoming presentation about exciting control options and data privacy from applying decentralization standards to the automotive industry. To put it briefly I was explaining how web decentralization standards can fix growing issues of data ownership … Continue reading Car Runs on Your Data? Hot Rod it With Some Decentralization