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I have long believed these "infotainment" systems are nothing more than tracking and forcing car owners to listen to "alerts". I think someone made a coding fuck up and exposed this.

I have long believed these "infotainment" systems are nothing more than tracking and forcing car owners to listen to "alerts". I think someone made a coding fuck up and exposed this.

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So there is a way to specifically target cars as old as 2016 by make/model and location, disabling GPS among other systems and...

“Luckily I am an NPR listener so that’s fine,” Smith said.

this is their response.

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I think someone who worked at the company who built the thing probably did it on purpose to expose it. Before I was thinking it was a coding fuck up but I am reading this could be a couple hundred cars. The thing is most people don't have the technical background to pull the unit out and attempt a fix. I am hoping someone who does have that skill figures it out and publishes what happened. Mazda sure as shit won't.

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This is why we should be fighting against connected cars that have a lot of "smart" electronics in them.

"To error is human, to really fowl things up requires a computer."

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NPR is every other radio station in Seattle. Literally .