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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by csours on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:47AM (#16266750)
I'm sure you're aware of this, but for others, the ODB-II port generally connects to completely insecure internal networks - so anything that physically connects to it may compromise it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/01/15/resea...

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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by LinuxBender on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:01PM (#16268483)
Yup, and some insurance companies are convincing people to connect a cell phone fob to their OBD-II in exchange for lower insurance rates. In exchange, they have access to your cars computer, GPS coordinates, basically anything you do, they track. That also puts your CANBUS on their network.
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