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[UPDATE: fake] They made his car "cease & desist" (lemmus.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sundray@lemmus.org to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.

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Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey maybe we shouldn't have a world where car companies can remotely deactivate your vehicle if you say mean things about them?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

If car companies can't remotely deactivate your vehicle, how will they be able to extort you and harass you and sell you out to the police?

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[+] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This has been standard in every car made after 2003

If your car is newer than that, the police can request the car company disable your engine.

It's fucked up and evil, but it isn't new, just the first time it's been blatantly abused

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[–] shininghero@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I think you're off by a decade there. My 2010 car has no mobile connectivity.

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[+] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cars having satellite gps has been standard for most manufacturers since the early 2000s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system

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[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

My guy doesn't know anything about how GPS works

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[–] shininghero@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Not suitable for this.

GPS is a purely one-way method, with the satellites transmitting only their position and a timecode, leaving the receiver to do the triangulation. And if they did send any sort of custom data packets over that method, it would just confuse the crap out of every other receiver across most of the world, causing potential device crashes, drawing attention from ham operators worldwide...

And also massively pissing off the US military. Turns out a lot of their equipment and munitions make use of GPS and INS, so fucking with those satellites is a no-go.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

And? Tell me you have no idea what GPS is or how it works.

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[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You might be off by a couple of years there. And even if you aren't, the 3G network those cars would've relied on for communications has been shut down so remotely doing anything to your 2004 car today would be impossible.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Off by a decade or so.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Wrong, that didn't start until like 2015 or later even.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

I believe before that.

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