I had raw IP dialup in 1989 in Tucson, Arizona. It's so long ago, that I don't recall the name of the company, but they were not new in 1989. And, there were other options.

He probably won't turn out to be innocent. Google is using something like a 128 bit hashes of the image file to detect redundant child porn crossing their network. The probability that two files accidentally match the same 128 bit hash is rare enough to re-occur about every million years.

I can't understand it either. If they are accusing so many car makes of having vulnerabilities, they should have been able to get access to at least one to formulate an actual attack. If everything on the same network was considered vulnerable by default - the Internet would be vulnerable.