Security News > 2024 > July > Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software
2024-07-30 11:07
Today's phones are able to receive updates six to eight years after their purchase date.
Samsung and Google provide Android OS updates and security updates for seven years.
We might buy a new DVR every 5 or 10 years, and a refrigerator every 25 years.
Go try to boot up a 1978 Commodore PET computer, or try to run that year's VisiCalc, and see what happens; we simply don't know how to maintain 40-year-old [consumer] software.
It might sell a dozen different types of cars with a dozen different software builds each year.
Even assuming that the software gets updated only every two years and the company supports the cars for only two decades, the company needs to maintain the capability to update 20 to 30 different software versions.
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