From: R Kym Horsell <kymhorsell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: "Green" Solar Panels
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:37:08 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: kymhorsell.com
In alt.global-warming Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2024-10-04 14:34, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 13:55:51 -0700, Alan wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-10-01 01:40, R Kym Horsell wrote:
>>>> In alt.global-warming Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:19:24 -0500, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>> Nebraska, USA: Within minutes, a single hailstorm reduced 14,000 solar
>>>>>> panels, worth millions of dollars, into a pile of toxic debris-leaching
>>>>>> materials like cadmium and lead into the soil.
>>>>> Lotta folks don't get how fragile hi-tech shit is.
>>>>> Dhu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Long gone are the days of servicing your own vehicle.
>>>> Apart from oiling some bearings you can't and sometimes are
>>>> prohibited by law from fixing your own car.
>>>> I was helping a neighbor recently and it turned out you
>>>> needed to break an old mil grade encryption to even ask it here it hurt.
>>> What kind of car was that?
>>> All cars built for sale in North America have had a standard OBD-II port
>>> that can be read by various scanners costing anywhere from $20...
>>> ...to a lot more depending on complexity.
>>> So what was that "mil grade encryption", hmmm?
>> You've not looked at automobile firmware, EVER, have you?
> You think you need to break the encryption on the firmware to get
> diagnostic information?
...
Things are not usually as simple as you might hope. :)
Modern cars have a network. The batteries, the fuel system, the
ignition, the dashboard, the lights, are all on a mini internet.
You think this is not encrypted? What if a thief got in there
and convinced the central locking system it has received a pass key
from a key or fob?
And the more compliacted things get the more complex they HAVE to
get just to catch up to the first part of the complications.
And the best part about this from the biz angle -- it makes it easier
to fence off access to something and charge anyone that wants access rent.
So obviously we're on a path where everything will become increasingly
more complex and costly.