Let's all discuss this...

[thingmon]

2015 or so...

https://www.rd.com/list/ways-hackers-can-take-control-of-your-car/

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by Tobra

They could brick your car, but then they could not listen to you while you are sitting in it anymore

Or watch you.

Modern cars are tracking bubbles that carry you around just as phones are tracking devices you carry around. The argument persists that most people don’t care because they aren’t doing anything illegal. Who cares if Kash Patel, Dan Bongino or Tulsi Gabbard is watching my boring, repetitive, ho-hum, geezer lifestyle? I don’t.

It’s the hackers, thieves, Bezos, Zuckerbergs, Musks, etc. that I fear with their AI.

With that here is an excerpt from ‘The Lion of Comarre’, in Arthur C Clark’s short story written in…1949! The Engineer therein is a robot:

[onewhippedpuppy]

I’ve often contemplated getting something old and carbureted for a long list of reasons, but the lack of tracking and electronics is one of them.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I’ve often contemplated getting something old and carbureted for a long list of reasons, but the lack of tracking and electronics is one of them.

I’m hoping this one will work for me…just in case.

[greglepore]

Whats weird is that some of this was sold as a "feature"-car is stolen, you can track and disable it. Only a matter of time til the hackers started to play. Be an awesome way to do repo's.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I’ve often contemplated getting something old and carbureted for a long list of reasons, but the lack of tracking and electronics is one of them.

I like how a lot of coders are bypassing IMMO and other EEPROM hardline systems with free software from github. In theory, it seems pretty simple to modify the data for the specific chips requiring basic software interfaces and/or boot mode the ecm on older FI cars. In the spirit of p-cars, here's a 986 DME bypass route for the IMMO for plug and play Audi engine swaps. https://sites.google.com/view/boxsterv8swap/home

<2003 would be the end of the golden area of vehicles; however, with the mass surveillance of ALPR this is all moot.