The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by saganus on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:10PM (#12447721)

What?

Why would Verizon want to connect anything to your mom's car?

That's very strange. Could it be that they want to monitor cellphone coverage maybe? Or even monitor their competitors' coverage?

It just creeps me the hell out thinking that my telecom would like to connect something to unrelated stuff...

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by nekohacker on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:53AM (#12450382)

I believe this (https://www.hum.com/) is the device in question. Seems like just another horribly insecure IOT device.

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by nitrogen on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:41PM (#12448031)

They could collect coverage data with a 12V barrel adapter, no need for OBD-II. That can only be nefarious.

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