[PLUG-TALK] Digital privacy: not with electric vehicles

[Tomas Kuchta]

This subject should be - "not with Ford vehicles"

Ford has exactly the same idea for all their vehicles. Focusing on electric
seems a little bit " not inclusive" against the other type of vehicles.

Just imagine - being a pedal driven vehicle - with all the bells and
whistles tech for extracting maximum value from humans. You would be much
better at it than electric/gasoline/fart powered vehicle - and you would
get no recognition in these sensational headlines. I would feel
marginalized at best!


Happy Thursday,
-T

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:42 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> We have discussed the age of surveillance capitalism here and the intrusion
> into our lives via the IoT. Yesterday, Brian Krebs
> <https://www.krebsonsecurity.com> posted an interesting article on the
> ability of a former Ford Fusion electric vehicle to access the car although
> it had returned it four years ago. There's a new owner but the former one
> can lock/unlock the car, remotely start it, and track its location because
> Ford (or the leasing dealer) did not reset the computer to factory
> defaults.
>
> Boy, howdy! Now others can control our electric vehicles, home heating and
> security systems, and our location in real time. Welcome to 1984.
>
> Rich
>
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