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To fix the battery drain problem, you can add a jumper wire inside the main fuse box that makes it so the DCM is powered only when the car is running, not all the time. Details here:
https://www.subaruoutback.org/threads/fix-for-parasitic-drain.553947/
Yeah, but I don't want the DCM to be powered/running when the car is running either because of the data privacy concerns.