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Can we prevent cars from sending data to servers if we remove their antennae? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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!

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So what you're saying is... don't wear any panties. Useful advice. scribbles in a notebook

But also the defeatest logic of 'it is useless because everyone else is accepting it' is so ew. Think about if nobody ever made adblocking capabilities 'because it is too late and we are inundated, so why even try', if nobody ever self-hosted anything because 'they have all our info already so what's the point of stopping now', if everyone jumped for joy at airport security checkpoints with fingerprint, cameras and biometric scans since 'fighting the system is useless'. shivers

Resistance may not be a tidal wave of change immediately, but if we don't push back against stuff, we are 100% fucked. And not the fun kind.

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