[akamaka]

This seems like a clickbait title because I’ve never hear of a hardware upgrade being called a “patch”.

[4ndrewl]

"The term "patch" came from early use in telephony and radio studios, where extra equipment kept on standby could be temporarily substituted for failed devices." - from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_cable

But yeah, the term patch just seems weird in this article. Why not just "upgrade" or "fix"?

[wucke13]

I'm not so sure, I thought "patch" originated from hole punching cards to program stuff. A software patch was literally a patch of tape that hides an errorneously punched hole in such a card.

The term patch-cable seems to be way younger.

[throwaway290]

"Service"?

[OhMeadhbh]

I don't think the patch is hardware. The hardware they're talking about is the "Gameboy like device" that runs the exploit.

[echoangle]

> The Verge now reports that Hyundai is offering a security patch for this issue through software and hardware upgrades to Ioniq 5 customers.

You do a hardware upgrade on the car to patch the vulnerability.