Chaos Communication Congress is such a cool event... 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

Last year, they hacked a train to prove that the manufacturing company wrote code that fully locks the train when it arrives at rival repair shops.

What models have they tracked?

Tech bros really never got the idea that cyberpunk is a genre of dystopian fiction.

Is there a company yet that let's me pay them to internet disconnect and rip out sensors on a modern car?

I recognize that its a tricky process, but since the Mozilla report, it seems like there's a market for it. I'd happily pay $5k for a privacy-mod to an electric vehicle.

It's a well known privacy issue to those who care about privacy. It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security

The good news is that it this information will eventually reach the insurance companies. That should help with terrible car drivers getting some incentives and disincentives to not suck so much.

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - The New York Times

If you want freedom, you get a bicycle.

I just watched the video. It is again a great and understandable talk, even for someone who has little technical knowledge. They also subtitle all their videos in English. I recommend it to everyone.

Isn't this very illegal in the EU?

Can we please start criminally punishing the execs that signed off on this?

There is an enormous problem with companies just knowingly and willingly breaking the law, taking the fines as cost of business

You can probably assume every device with satnav and an internet connection is doing this.

And those 20 pages of text you scrolled to the bottom of without reading in order to click the OK button to get the directions to the nearest McDonalds gives them every right to do so.

Das Dumbass

They collect every single thing from how many times you open your door to how fast you drive

Surprisingly little in Turkey

hahahaha toldya x50

I am so glad my car was made just before all this massive enshittification.

Somebody made it public explicitly because S3 buckets are private by default. So I guess some of their components needed to be able to read it and they didn't have the skills or time/money to do it in a more fine-grained way.