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Volkswagen has been collecting geolocation data from their smart cars, which were accidentally made public (infosec.exchange)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It doesn't default insecure anymore and it bitches at you when you try to make it public.

My bet would be that It was either a pre-existing bucket, or some team put a "temporary" measure in (making it public) instead of using the API to pull the data until they got around to implementing it correctly.