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Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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[–] 78 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Also isn't it Mazda's fault for creating an API that anyone can access and get information from? Someone in Mazda IT is probably frantically looking for the email chain where he was told to "just make it public" so our outside analysts can use it.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I think yes, assuming nobody grabbed an API key out of the Mazda app or something.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Quite often these integrations just take the authentication token or cookie during OAuth or the normal login process.

    Actions like that would be impossible with WEI.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A huge project at my work got pushed back because a company we are working with decided to make the API public...

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