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echo: rberrypi
to: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
from: DRUCK
date: 2020-09-13 19:33:00
subject: Re: Spectre / Meltdown

On 13/09/2020 13:55, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 13/09/2020 11:01, druck wrote:
>> On 12/09/2020 05:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Once written software costs nothing more than a ROM
>>
>> Oh the nativity! Modern ECU software is not in ROM, and will be
>> modified and re-flashed many times the lifetime of a car. Particularly
>> when cheat modes need to be removed.
>>
> Flash memory or ROM, the point remains. Its cheap once you have written
> it.

Speaking as someone who was working in this area until recently, it
really doesn't.

---druck

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