Funny story about cellular gateway hardware.
Running a botnet based in part on active police vehicles is definitely a cyberpunk trickster-figure move; but the moral of the story is that cell bridges for bolting stuff onto the internet are…not exactly of impeccable quality.
(I realize that your suggestion was sarcastic; but it seemed a decent place for an already-real-world trainwreck story; especially since those sorts of bridges are the likely implementation if network capability is either an option or a bolt-on to an earlier design with only hardwired interfaces. The appeal is obvious; you can pretty much just put something with a serial port on the internet, wherever cell service exists, with a turnkey box; but ‘secure by default’ isn’t industry standard among sellers of such; and the silent-just-works aspect makes getting even the patches that are released applied in time less likely.)
