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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you - IMDEA Networks
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Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signals from more than 20,000 vehicles, revealing a hidden privacy risk and highlighting the need for stronger security measures in future vehicle sensor systems. Most...

Fuck Cars.

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    I made sure my car doesn’t come with a cellular modem. But I didn’t knew about the pressure sensors.

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      Their is an onstar gps in them too.

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        But it can’t transmit without a modem.

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          You can transmit without a modem.

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          How so? A sopranos episode they hire a dude to take it out of the car.

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            To be fair, that’s not transmitting.

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              How so?

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            GPS units do not transmit, they only receive the signal from the satellites. I wouldn’t take advice from TV fiction.

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              I would, from that show.

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