It's shocking that Provincial and State governments haven't made laws forcing the auto makers to make their cars harder to steal
Cause apparently there was no crime in my area until COVID lockdowns and Liberal pandemic policies, nothing at all ever happened
Its basically negligence at this point. But granted, I think a lot of it is just people not knowing that it is the Auto Industries fault for having absolutely shit tech security built into their vehicles.
Like, they want their cars to be computers on wheels. But they don't want to spend money on making sure their software is secure and that backdoors are patched. And out of pure laziness, and capitalistic mindset, a car thats easier to steal is just another sale when that car gets stolen. Just as long as they do the bare minimum to hide that its their fault, customers will come right back once their Insurance pays out. And if they don't, someone else who just had their car stolen and are trying another model out will.
Like
this came out last year from a Security Researcher who focuses on the Auto Sector, and speaking as a tech guy, its fucking mindboggling what the Auto Industry gets away with.
They don't encrypt communications between components in your vehicles, so basically anyone can snoop in. They give fucking administrative priveleges to literally every wire that plugs into it. Meaning a thief can just plug a computer into the fucking headlights and program a brand new key, and the main system is just perfectly fine with that and sees zero problems. They don't implement a zero trust model of security between components, nor give them minimal access to other systems. They just don't care
And like, fuck. When every single car has a touch screen or buttons. You'd think they could at the bare minimum let you chose to optionally put a fucking PIN code in to even start the vehicle. But nope, thats waaay too much work for them to have the Center Console prompt up a number pad when you press the Power Button. Imagine how many cars they could pevent being stolen if a thief progams themselves a new key, only to be blocked by the PIN on the dashboard. Its such a simple measure that could be done. But they don't, and its pathetic.
I don't think the justice system in its current form is as much rehabilitative as much as it's just halfassed and lazy. Like, it generally tries to avoid being punitive with "excessive" sentencing but also makes no effort to actually correct behaviours so they just let people out early instead and call it a day.
What I would be the most worried about, justice system wise is that Trudeau is leaving a lot of positions unfilled. Because you know for a fact that if PP gets in, he'll immediately stack the deck with the most Regressive, Conservative, Far-right lunatics you've ever seen.
And like, I get completely exactly why he isnt filling those positions, since he rightly wants to make the Justice System more fair by improving the representation of judges so that Women, Minorities, LGBTQ, People with Disabilities and First Nations actually have representation in the court system. But its very liable to backfire on him. And as someone who fits into a couple of those groups, its worrying.
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