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Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen (www.vice.com)

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Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen::In a court filing, the companies argue that social media companies “caused an unprecedented increase in thefts.” The cars being stolen didn’t have basic anti-theft technology.

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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

What they are saying is they practice security through obscurity. Their security relies on people not knowing something that is simple to understand. This is fundamentally different from actual security where there is no easy way to defeat it no matter what you know.

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