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Can we prevent cars from sending data to servers if we remove their antennae? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know anything about cars.

Now that we have established that cars seriously undermine our privacy (look at the flurry of posts in this community in the last few hours), what can we do about it?

From a networking POV, if you remove the ability to connect to the Internet, it doesn't matter what the car is recording as long as you can ensure there is no physical tampering. Depending on who you are, this is a good idea, and doable for the most part (very few people have the technical knowledge to pull out the right chip from a car).

So, how do we achieve this? I implore the community to invite mechanical/car engineers who can help us on this matter, and to form methods to prevent vehicles from accessing the Internet without express consent from the user.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Just ask the dealer to disconnect the modem upon purchase.

Better yet, refuse to buy shit you don't own and make this known. Go to the dealer force them to stand around while you read the privacy agreement. Use an attorney because they have stupid legal agreements. Waste everyone's time because they are the ones doing this to you. It must cost profit. Then walk away from this bullshit. Tell them why you are walking away.

All of this exists because people are too stupid to care. If you ignore this, you are one of them, and part of the problem. Legal agreements are theft and slavery. Signing them blindly is the stupidest thing you can ever do in your life. Anyone that needs a legal agreement for you to make a purchase is a worthless criminal. Signing their bullshit is saying you are okay with being their little slave bitch.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like the other person said, you are confusing the dealership and the manufacturer. This is the equivalent of those people that yelled at the teenagers working at chik filet. The dealership will just say they don't create those rules and you'd have to take it up with the manufacturer, then ask you to leave. If you don't leave and act like a jerk, they'll just call the cops and have you escorted off premises.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except it's really not. Most of the dealerships around are thinly veiled fronts for the manufacturers. The salespeople are shills and scam artists who are specifically hired for their ability to pull the wool over people's eyes. That poor sap working at Chik-fil-A is some minimum-wage kid who is about as complicit in the greater organization than the mop is. Dealerships are a mouthpiece for the very manufacturers who are patenting ways to make your care self repossess and are charging subscriptions for basic functions that are built into the cars.

The comparison is shallow and not at all reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

lol no not at all. They are franchises, not fronts for the manufacturer. Everything you said is as wrong as can be.

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