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Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles (self.aboringdystopia)

submitted 5 days ago by itsathursday to c/aboringdystopia

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https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-uses-cybertruck-explosion-to-show-tesla-can-remotely-unlock-and-monitor-vehicles/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but the crucial bit of difference was, if you thought OnStar was too invasive, you could turn it off

You can disable your own access to the service. Short of ripping out the cellular module, you can't disable OnStar's access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What I mean was you can not subscribe to OnStar, and then you don't have OnStar no more. The spying hardware is there, just not used.

As opposed to modern cars with which you don't subscribe to anything and they spy on you without your consent, and there's nothing you can do about it short of - like you said - ripping out the spying hardware.