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Speedster jailed after S’pore police tapped data from in-car system in first case here (www.straitstimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clearly you haven't worked on new Dodge vehicles as they have completely locked their engine diagnostic behind a massive paywall that Dodge can revoke if they feel like to leaving you unable to work on that engine. VW, Merc, Volvo, BMW have all been calling home for the past 10-15 years now as a mandatory way to re-enable ice engines. Ford and Chevy are also looking to (if they haven't already) locking their internal CPU behind a paywall as well.

TL;DR - All new cars (ev or ice) are getting "features" that lock you out of "working on the engine"

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Well that's why I drive an old car