My point is people shouldn’t need to try to outsmart the car manufacturer for basic privacy rights. If you don’t fully control something you don’t own something.
Imagine if they remotely bricked a bunch of vehicles. (Ransomware maybe?) You would be powerless to stop them and out of luck. I’m sure there would be a lawsuit but you still would be without a car.
Disconnecting the antenna is probably not a bad idea but the problem is cars have become black box computers so you never know where there could be a weakness. For all you know it might be possible to crash the car systems via Bluetooth.
What I want is some user freedom laws plus some DMCA exceptions for consumers looking to escape vendor lock in. Privacy protections would also be nice but being able to change and examine software would be a step in the right direction.
You can rip out the cell connection
Not always.
Sometimes it’s so integrated into the other systems there’s no separate component to “rip out”.
You may be able to pull the antenna cable and put a dummy on it (like used for testing radios). It’ll absorb all the RF from the transmitter.
Oh, good idea.
What if it has a redundant connection? At the end of the day you do not own the car
Weird, I guess this title I registered at the dmv isn’t real.
I’m sure it only has one. And I’m not sure you know how ownership works. It’s privacy I’m more concerned about.
My point is people shouldn’t need to try to outsmart the car manufacturer for basic privacy rights. If you don’t fully control something you don’t own something.
Imagine if they remotely bricked a bunch of vehicles. (Ransomware maybe?) You would be powerless to stop them and out of luck. I’m sure there would be a lawsuit but you still would be without a car.
Disconnecting the antenna is probably not a bad idea but the problem is cars have become black box computers so you never know where there could be a weakness. For all you know it might be possible to crash the car systems via Bluetooth.
What I want is some user freedom laws plus some DMCA exceptions for consumers looking to escape vendor lock in. Privacy protections would also be nice but being able to change and examine software would be a step in the right direction.