[HN Gopher] Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any ...
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       Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-
       Time
        
       Author : karinakarina
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-03-17 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gizmodo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gizmodo.com)
        
       | LinuxBender wrote:
       | Probably any modern car? OBD-3 was supposed to have a small GSM
       | transceiver in it to relay GPS location, smog emission, speed,
       | allow remote engine-shut-off, misc other things and that was
       | starting to be deployed in 2012 on some cars but then put on hold
       | for privacy issues. My old vehicle does not emit any RF and is
       | OBD-2. Are there any car hackers on here that have hypothetically
       | speaking modded the OBD-3 transceiver modules? _i.e.
       | hypothetically spoofed speed, emissions, location._ I can 't even
       | find a list of manufacturers that have implemented this. SEMA
       | were the group leading the effort.
        
       | samstave wrote:
       | Yeah this company can fuck itself, eat a bag of dicks and
       | hopefully die.
       | 
       | I don't want to live in a world of surveillance such as this and
       | anyone working for this company should down-right fuck off.
       | 
       | We already built a surveillance system that is too vast.
       | 
       | go fuck yourself:
       | 
       | Source: I helped build tracking tech for Lockheed, was the
       | personal tech trainer for Tom Ridge when he joined the board of
       | Lockheed and used to go to his house
       | 
       | I was also director at [company] when my team built all the
       | Vizio, Samsung, LG spying tech into your Television... [Real-time
       | screenshots from your TV, what you are watching and other data]
       | ((kill your smart TV))
       | 
       | Yeah - it sickens me and this company can get fucked.
       | 
       | I am so tired of growing up in a world where I read science
       | fiction in the 80s and thought "wouldnt it be cool if" and then
       | helped make this dystopian nightmare of surveillance that we now
       | live in.
       | 
       | Any engineer working on this crap should not be proud of the
       | genie they just released from that bottle.
       | 
       | You know whats fucked up is that the biggest social media company
       | has car tracking around its HQ and it reports lic plates back to
       | the municipal city government...
        
         | emodendroket wrote:
         | It doesn't sound like you're in a very strong position to
         | condemn them, then.
        
           | Arrath wrote:
           | What better way to open your eyes than be inside the belly of
           | the beast?
           | 
           | People can grow and have regrets.
        
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