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This seems so easy, pull the 4g modem or its fuse? Or is it tied into the ECU so that our foreign adversaries now have the ability to brick our vehicles too?
by kylehotchkiss 2y ago
This seems so easy, pull the 4g modem or its fuse? Or is it tied into the ECU so that our foreign adversaries now have the ability to brick our vehicles too?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThis disables useful features like "call 911 if a collision occurs". If given a choice between safety and privacy, a lot of people will choose safety. We shouldn't have to make the trade off.
- codedokode 2y agoYou can call 911 without a SIM (I guess), so should the solution be to remove the SIM card?
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoThankfully this feature will increasingly ship with our phones/wearables. Both of which are capable of getting updates to how they talk to 911 (whatever your car does is how it'll talk to 911 the rest of its life, nobody is ever gonna update that). The most specific thing the car will know your phone/watch won't is airbag deployment status. "call 911 if emergency occurs" is exactly how they justified getting all the data collection and transmission equipment in the first place.
- bradfa 2y agoIf someone would publish such a guide for each make/model/year of car, that would be a HUGE public service. Even if it's not pulling fuses or removing cables/parts, just something like "set these settings to these values to disable sharing".
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoStrong agree. Or where to wrap in foil/faraday fabric: https://slnt.com/collections/d-i-y/products/multishield-faraday-material https://slnt.com/collections/d-i-y/products/multishield-fara...
- TheCleric 2y agoOn some cars they purposely tie this fuse to multiple things like the radio or Bluetooth so that you’re giving up useful features along with the bad ones.