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BlackEco to [email protected] • 6 months ago

Volkswagen has been collecting geolocation data from their smart cars, which were accidentally made public

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Volkswagen has been collecting geolocation data from their smart cars, which were accidentally made public

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BlackEco to [email protected] • 6 months ago
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Attached: 1 image As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 MiO cars. Amazing detail and patterns. This is why I don't want a smart car 🤯 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen/ #Volksdaten
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    11•6 months ago

    Are antennas usually behind a fuse?

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      Mine was, it’ll be called OnStar in the manual.

      Here’s a post with a pic https://sh.itjust.works/post/16735052

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        Ah, pretty sure that’d be the whole OnStar transceiver, too (which isn’t a bad thing to disable…).

        I thought the antenna itself was behind a fuse (as in, feedline has an inline fuse) which would be a peculiar design I think.

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          No, you’d never put a fuse between transceiver and antenna.

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