Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Just putting this out there, I will never pay for a subscription service in my car. I didn't do it for the radio, I didn't do it for onstar, and I won't do it for anything else. I know I'm not the only one. If a car has a "feature" I have to keep paying for after I bought the car, no it doesn't.
afaik, even if you don't pay and never pay, features like onstar are still 'active', still have cellular connections enabled, and are still tracking your every move.
And attempting to circumvent them results in a DMCA if you get caught! Wonderful! Fucking clown world we live in.
Correct. The next time I have to buy a car that will be part of my criteria: if I’m paying more than $40k for something that shit doesn’t get to include a subscription.
That's a smart buying strategy, but unless you're actually pulling out the antennas these subscription services use it won't be an effective security strategy
For the time being I won't even buy the car. I know there's going to be a day where that's not possible. But for now, it's immediately off any list of be considering.
There's been an uptick in people interested in the older Ford F-series trucks and C/K Chevs. Barebones dash, heating & A/C system, radio, glove box. No weird electronic options, to Lowjack, nothing. I'm hopeful of some of the Japanese companies releasing new-model vehicles without all of the extra electronic baloney, but that's a problem for another day.
I think that it was BMW or Jaguar that proposed a subscription-based seat heating option? I don't know where these people get their ideas, it's just wild.
BMW
I wanted to build my own module that would let me query and inject codes into my cars CAN bus and replace onstar with that. Short version of this is that GM says no, you cant use the car in a way that doesnt generate profit for us.