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   John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:17:10 JST John Mark Ockerbloom

   One reason we avoided the "connected cars" when we had to replace ours recently: Subaru's Starlink had a huge ineffectively secured backdoor that let anyone with a license plate and last name of a Subaru owner remotely unlock and start the car (and also get various personal information, including everywhere the car had been driven to in the past year). Here's a report from someone who found and reported the vulnerability (which has now been closed): https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:17:10 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @JMarkOckerbloom How did you find a disconnected car? Last time I heard someone try this (Spain circa 2022), the only model for sale which appeared to not phone home constantly was a Honda Civic.