pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Testwww.mozillafoundation.orgexternal-linkmessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlprivacy@programming.devprivacy@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1502arrow-down1external-link‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Testwww.mozillafoundation.orgpomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前message-square128linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlprivacy@programming.devprivacy@lemmy.ml
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·14 天前What do you think the third party mechanic plugs into the car to read data from the computer?
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 天前are they also forced by the company to send them the data?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 天前No, but you think they’re going to use open source software?? The dealer wrote the software. They’ll make it call home to the mothership. Unless you find a mechanic that will perma airgap their computer. Good luck
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 天前good point, I never thought about that. sounds like we should keep our mechanics to higher standards haha
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 天前which is so annoying because even just isolating the program in a VM would solve the issue
What do you think the third party mechanic plugs into the car to read data from the computer?
are they also forced by the company to send them the data?
No, but you think they’re going to use open source software?? The dealer wrote the software. They’ll make it call home to the mothership.
Unless you find a mechanic that will perma airgap their computer. Good luck
good point, I never thought about that. sounds like we should keep our mechanics to higher standards haha
which is so annoying because even just isolating the program in a VM would solve the issue