I don’t know anything about cars.
Now that we have established that cars seriously undermine our privacy (look at the flurry of posts in this community in the last few hours), what can we do about it?
From a networking POV, if you remove the ability to connect to the Internet, it doesn’t matter what the car is recording as long as you can ensure there is no physical tampering. Depending on who you are, this is a good idea, and doable for the most part (very few people have the technical knowledge to pull out the right chip from a car).
So, how do we achieve this? I implore the community to invite mechanical/car engineers who can help us on this matter, and to form methods to prevent vehicles from accessing the Internet without express consent from the user.
Thanks!
I wish I were a billionaire. I would literally start a company that made cars, phones, tech of all kinds on the basic premise that I don’t give a fuck about you or your data. Make it private. Make it have no EULA that says anything beyond IP protections. Make it so consumers never have to worry about underhanded bullshit. Sure, I may not make tons of money, but I think I could be happy turning a small profit, paying employees fairly, and knowing that I am selling better products and undercutting all the assholes to send them careening directly I to the ground.
To become a billionaire you can’t have a moral compass from the start so it’s hard to imagine. I wish you well though, hope to buy one of your devices in future
Closest we have to a “unicorn” billionaire with some sort of moral compass is Linus Torvalds, if you ask me.
I think he is far from being a billionaire
Eh, that might be why you’re not a billionaire
Perhaps. I like to blame my crippling ADHD and lack of generational wealth.
They thing to do is buy the rights to old designs, then open source them and sell them. It pisses me off no end I can’t find system diagrams, schematics or source code to think I apparently “own”. It keeps everyone ignorant and throwing stuff away to keep buying new. And now, with all going online, turns everything to a privacy nightmare . When the manufacture moves on to the next shiny, it will become part of internet of infected things botnets.
Can you make me a microwave that doesnt’t beep?
Bruh. Hold down the setup button. No more single tone screams of your meal is ready.
If that doesn’t work, there should be instructions for your brand online.
Or just open the side panel and pull the lead off the speaker. Hopefully they didn’t do something dumb like wire the speaker in series with the main power supply so to the computer so the whole thing doesn’t work if the speaker is disconnected or dies.
They do exist. Mine has a mute button. The keypad is awful though. I don’t remember the brand and not at home, but can look it up later