Qualcomm 8155 powered sync will be in 24 China MME "ford electric horse"

[Jimrpa]

They banned USB drives because people are morons and will pick up a USB drive they found on the street and plug it in to their work computer to see what was on it. Often times these drives had ransomware or other types of malware and would be used for corporate espionage or other types of ways to get money.

Banning people from being able to plug in random devices they found off the street or brought in from elsewhere is pretty standard corporate cybersecurity and has nothing to do with where the devices were manufactured.

Partly correct.
Here’s a published example of a much worse threat: https://www.wired.com/story/china-u...malware spreading within,Read this story here.

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[Aubury]

Partly correct.
Here’s a published example of a much worse threat: https://www.wired.com/story/china-usb-sogu-malware/#:~:text=Description-,Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within,Read this story here.

I mean, that's not that surprising. The proper question is are these USB drives coming out of the factories with malware on them, or are these Chinese spy groups collecting USB drives, loading them with the malware, and then taking them to places in Africa for infection.

This type of stuff isn't exactly new or unique to China either. Russia and other Eastern European countries (and criminal groups) have done it. Hell, the US has done it. USB drives is how Stuxnet made its way to the SCADA computer that controlled the Iranian nuclear fuel centrifuges. It infected computers and any USB drives that were attached to them, until an infected USB drive made its way to the SCADA computer, infected it and destroyed the centrifuges. That malware was designed by the US and Israel.

 

[Tragic Apology]

Please don't get people's hopes up for something extremely unlikely. They aren't going to make Android Auto OS backwards compatible to earlier years.

Android Auto OS is a bit of a misnomer, it doesn't need to be fully embedded within the car, QNX actually fully supports running Android Automotive as a virtualized system within itself. As I understand it, Ford Sync 4A is actually a lot further off from Sync 4 that it's name would suggest in that the display that you actually see is not a native QNX app but something that you see displayed in basically a web browser.

I totally agree that it is extremely unlikely that Android Auto is going to be running in our cars, it is far more likely that Ford just used this design to start working on their Android Automotive display and didn't want to invest any more resources in a QNX app that they were already planning on moving on from, but it's wrong to say QNX and Android Auto are mutually exclusive, I actually think it is pretty likely when Ford implements Android Auto into their cars, it will still be running within QNX for a lot of reasons that don't have anything to do with your interaction with the infotainment system.

 

[Hammered]

Android Auto OS is a bit of a misnomer, it doesn't need to be fully embedded within the car, QNX actually fully supports running Android Automotive as a virtualized system within itself. As I understand it, Ford Sync 4A is actually a lot further off from Sync 4 that it's name would suggest in that the display that you actually see is not a native QNX app but something that you see displayed in basically a web browser.

Um, sync 4a is a marketing name. There's 2 hardware versions of sync4, the cheapie that comes in cheaper F150s and the one used in all 12"+ screen vehicles. Here's the screens it can drive

Sync 5 has 2 versions they label as "electric" and "gas" internally. They're essentially a lite and a premium just like sync 4. I played with the settings in my F150 to get the screen to be a shrunk 15" with tile cards.

 

[Jimrpa]

I mean, that's not that surprising. The proper question is are these USB drives coming out of the factories with malware on them, or are these Chinese spy groups collecting USB drives, loading them with the malware, and then taking them to places in Africa for infection.

This type of stuff isn't exactly new or unique to China either. Russia and other Eastern European countries (and criminal groups) have done it. Hell, the US has done it. USB drives is how Stuxnet made its way to the SCADA computer that controlled the Iranian nuclear fuel centrifuges. It infected computers and any USB drives that were attached to them, until an infected USB drive made its way to the SCADA computer, infected it and destroyed the centrifuges. That malware was designed by the US and Israel.

I cited that particular article as it was a good, recent, open-source example. Various nation-state actors have been a persistent cyber threat to the US for decades. We aren’t talking about a couple of dozen USB sticks sold at Walmart that may have been compromised.
And the “we do it, so why are you criticizing them” is a false equivalency.

 

[Luke]

You should be able to get it from here: https://www.4dtech.com/navigation/sync3retrofit/

Not cheap and I'm pretty sure the installation is a nightmare.

Disassembly the dashboard is the hard part. All else is plug and play. I did that on my 2013 Taurus. Great upgrade. But close to $400 at the time.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Um, sync 4a is a marketing name. There's 2 hardware versions of sync4, the cheapie that comes in cheaper F150s and the one used in all 12"+ screen vehicles.

Nope.

Sync 4 is the OS applied to the 8 and 12" landscape screens screens. It is an updated version of Sync 3.
It's found on a variety of Ford products including ICE F-150s, eTransits, and lower trim Lightnings among others.

Sync 4A is the OS applied to the 15.5" portrait screens. It is a new OS.
It has many features not available to Sync4.
It's found on upper trim Lightnings, Mach E, and Edge (perhaps others now).

 

[Hammered]

Nope.

Sync 4 is the OS applied to the 8 and 12" landscape screens screens. It is an updated version of Sync 3.
It's found on a variety of Ford products including ICE F-150s, eTransits, and lower trim Lightnings among others.

Sync 4A is the OS applied to the 15.5" portrait screens. It is a new OS.
It has many features not available to Sync4.
It's found on upper trim Lightnings, Mach E, and Edge (perhaps others now).

Again, it's the same exact hardware. 4a isn't special or unique. It's this fact that's seeing the same updates apply across the 4/"4a" platforms.

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