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Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare”
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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Good to know. So things to inquire when buying a car will be:
I guess in either case the answer will likely mean I will keep driving my existing car until it dies.
SIM card removal, antenna destruction, etc. Will only help us until they play the insurance card. Can't afford shooting down the road in two tons of steel without insurance.
If it's a Tesla, you lose all access to connectivity, OTA updates, "autopilot", driver assist, gps, etc...
Fuck Elon
That's fine, I have a degoogled phone for that
Is it possible to sideload updates to a Tesla?
Of course it's possible if you have physical access. The question is: how easy? And: are you prepared for them to remotely disble your car while you're working on it
Can't you just cut the antennas?
You mean like completely rip open the interior, find the wiring for the antennas and cut them? Yeah, not something I'm gonna do to a machine I just paid tens of thousands of Euros for.
It's designed to be opened without damaging it. Just install a switch
In the cars I know, the electronics are one of the first things they attach to the bare bone car body. Sure I can get to it... by dismantling half of the car.