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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by adrianb on Thursday August 13, 2015 @07:06PM (#10057730)
The connection is probably at least used to crowd-source live traffic information. Most people would like this feature.
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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by mhurron on Thursday August 13, 2015 @07:13PM (#10057756)
That doesn't justify not giving the option to disable it.
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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by scintill76 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @07:20PM (#10057784)
Uh, are you saying s/he should keep the network connected because other people want the data s/he will provide by driving around with the network on?
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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by teacup50 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @07:15PM (#10057766)
Most people would like live traffic information.

Most people would not like to feed their location data to "the cloud", or open their car to anyone with an exploit in their pocket.

Traffic information can be distributed to cars via one-way mechanisms without sacrificing privacy -- using mechanisms such as FM RDS and Satellite Radio.

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