{"id":3364,"date":"2012-03-08T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:53:59","slug":"ford-test-drives-new-consumer-firmware-updates-securityweek-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Ford Test Drives New Consumer Firmware Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What\u2019s confusing (and Ford says as much) is that there\u2019s a first \u201cInstallation Complete\u201d message after about a minute\u2013but, wait, there\u2019s more. Leave the USB drive in and keep the car turned on as a second installation then begins and will last much longer. After about five to ten minutes, the update is finally complete. You\u2019ll then need to pair your mobile device again, but the contact information and your files should still be in the SYNC system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/ford-test-drives-new-consumer-firmware-updates\">Ford Test Drives New Consumer Firmware Updates | SecurityWeek.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly go wrong LOL?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will then need to take the USB drive back to your laptop or home computer to report that the update was successful so that Ford can advance you to the next update, should one become available. This last step might not be completed by most consumers who will move on to other things. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how many downloads correspond to successful installations of the update.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s confusing (and Ford says as much) is that there\u2019s a first \u201cInstallation Complete\u201d message after about a minute\u2013but, wait, there\u2019s more. Leave the USB drive in and keep the car turned on as a second installation then begins and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[537,342],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-firmware","tag-software-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}