pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Testwww.mozillafoundation.orgexternal-linkmessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agomaybe it’s different here in Europe, but why not avoid dealerships all-together? do you just not have third party mechanic shops?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoWhat do you think the third party mechanic plugs into the car to read data from the computer?
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoare they also forced by the company to send them the data?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNo, but you think they’re going to use open source software?? The dealer wrote the software. They’ll make it call home to the mothership. Unless you find a mechanic that will perma airgap their computer. Good luck
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agogood point, I never thought about that. sounds like we should keep our mechanics to higher standards haha
minus-squareamino@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agowhich is so annoying because even just isolating the program in a VM would solve the issue
maybe it’s different here in Europe, but why not avoid dealerships all-together? do you just not have third party mechanic shops?
What do you think the third party mechanic plugs into the car to read data from the computer?
are they also forced by the company to send them the data?
No, but you think they’re going to use open source software?? The dealer wrote the software. They’ll make it call home to the mothership.
Unless you find a mechanic that will perma airgap their computer. Good luck
good point, I never thought about that. sounds like we should keep our mechanics to higher standards haha
which is so annoying because even just isolating the program in a VM would solve the issue