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Brodie Allen


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Your Car Is No Longer a SanctuaryIt's a Surveillance Tool
September 2, 2024, Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/your-car-no-longer-sanctuaryits-surveillance...

Ford Motor Company is just one of many automakers advancing technology that weaponizes cars for mass surveillance. The ... company is currently pursuing a patent for technology that would allow vehicles to monitor the speed of nearby cars, capture images, and transmit data to law enforcement agencies. This would effectively turn vehicles into mobile surveillance units, sharing detailed information with both police and insurance companies. Ford's initiative is part of a broader trend among car manufacturers, where vehicles are increasingly used to spy on drivers and harvest data. In today's world, a smartphone can produce up to 3 gigabytes of data per hour, but recently manufactured cars can churn out up to 25 gigabytes per hourand the cars of the future will generate even more. These vehicles now gather biometric data such as voice, iris, retina, and fingerprint recognition. In 2022, Hyundai patented eye-scanning technology to replace car keys. This data isn't just stored locally; much of it is uploaded to the cloud, a system that has proven time and again to be incredibly vulnerable. Toyota recently announced that a significant amount of customer information was stolen and posted on a popular hacking site. Imagine a scenario where hackers gain control of your car. As cybersecurity threats become more advanced, the possibility of a widespread attack is not far-fetched. 

Note: FedEx is helping the police build a large AI surveillance network to track people and vehicles. Automakers can collect intimate data from drivers' smartphones and sell it to companies and insurance companiesinformation that includes a driver's genetic background, health diagnoses, and even their sex life. Michael Hastings, a journalist investigating U.S. military and intelligence abuses, was killed in a 2013 car crash that may have been the result of a hack. For more, explore summaries of news articles on the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources. 

And police will be able to turn ignition off in appropriate circumstances!

 

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In light of tonights Australian news revelations, I can only remind you that you were warned.

No, I doubt that they will ban chinese car imports, but up to you to buy one!!

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A bit of black tape over cameras. 

I don't want uninvited people seeing what I have in my garage for a start.



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Whenarewethere wrote:

A bit of black tape over cameras. 

I don't want uninvited people seeing what I have in my garage for a start.

 I think that you might have missed the theme a bit.

 

The danger is in part, the ability of the manufacturer to slow/turn off or otherwise interfere

by remote with the operation of your vehicle. Notwithstanding the ability to log, track and even

listen to and see you - depending on the vehicle.

 

And it isn't likely to get any better. Remember the 5G fiasco with the Chinese?



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Brodie you would have more people believing you if you stopped posting articles from well known conspiracy theorists.

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Having read all of your comments, the one that REALLY spooked me recently were the exploding devices in the "middle east"???
How far have they gone with this sort of stuff and just how far can they go with murder and maiming by technology?
(Disclaimer : I have no opinion on either or any side of what is going on over there!).

I am no fan of A.I. in any shape or form and hate it when a scam call comes thru to my mobile and it is a recorded voice.

It is a very isolating feeling to have someone scamming you and you cannot even give them a verbal serve !!!!!

Not fair.

Also a real worry if you gave a scammer a decent serve and they then have the ability to programme an explosion into your phone battery - really???

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rmoor wrote:

Having read all of your comments, the one that REALLY spooked me recently were the exploding devices in the "middle east"???

How far have they gone with this sort of stuff and just how far can they go with murder and maiming by technology?

(Disclaimer : I have no opinion on either or any side of what is going on over there!).


I am no fan of A.I. in any shape or form and hate it when a scam call comes thru to my mobile and it is a recorded voice.


It is a very isolating feeling to have someone scamming you and you cannot even give them a verbal serve !!!!!


Not fair.


Also a real worry if you gave a scammer a decent serve and they then have the ability to programme an explosion into your phone battery - really???




according to the movies that exploding phone stuff has been on the table for a while.

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Brodie Allen wrote:

Whenarewethere wrote:

A bit of black tape over cameras. 

I don't want uninvited people seeing what I have in my garage for a start.

 I think that you might have missed the theme a bit.

 

The danger is in part, the ability of the manufacturer to slow/turn off or otherwise interfere

by remote with the operation of your vehicle. Notwithstanding the ability to log, track and even

listen to and see you - depending on the vehicle.

 

And it isn't likely to get any better. Remember the 5G fiasco with the Chinese?




again this tech stuff has been happening for a while.

my personal experience was i was in a Swedish truck that was broken down, out on the hay plain, i had to get on the phone talk to someone in the UK, they talk to a satellite that connected to the computer in the truck diagnosed the problem made some adjustments and the problem gets sorted, that was 15 years ago, so i would imagine things would have advanced since then?

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Also a real worry if you gave a scammer a decent serve and they then have the ability to programme an explosion into your phone battery - really???

I think you should read more about that incident with the pagers before jumping to the wrong conclusions.

The pagers that blew up were fitted with a special battery designed to look like a normal battery. Instead it was full of explosives. They were targeted only for those being delivered to Hezbollah. Then at the appropriate time, some months later they were given the signal to detonate at the same time.

In this case they were well targeted with only a very small proportion of innocents affected. They were much more focused than the rockets fired at Israel.

A bit off the subject so I will leave it there.

 



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Brodie Allen wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:

A bit of black tape over cameras. 

I don't want uninvited people seeing what I have in my garage for a start.

 I think that you might have missed the theme a bit.

 Didn't miss the point.

Just pointing out another issue.

Might as well leave the front door open so everyone can look.



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Kebbin wrote:

Brodie you would have more people believing you if you stopped posting articles from well known conspiracy theorists.

 Local and Federal news hardly qualify as "conspiracy" stuff.

 

It's here now, especially in chinese vehicles.

 

Customer will decide. Not for me, especially with the animosity between China and Taiwan and the US's situation.

 

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Kebbin wrote:

Brodie you would have more people believing you if you stopped posting articles from well known conspiracy theorists.

What Brodie says is true. The US president has recently banned cars that incorporate Chinese software for this reason. Of course, this then begs the question, why is it OK for US car makers, or anyone at all, to spy on US citizens and harvest their private data?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Olo7B2ZydI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-25/us-banning-chinese-cars-why-some-want-australia-to-take-notice/104391740



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Knowing these features of this spymobile I would doub't anyone would buy it.

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We probably won't have to worry about it too long into the future. We have reports of near misses with asteroids passing near the earth, Putin is full bent on taking over Europe, the Middle East situations are not good, North Korea is waiting as well for their turn. And then there's our friend Trump tossed in for good measure!

Wow, what a great world we live in.

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Could not have put it better Warren!



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Brodie Allen wrote:
Kebbin wrote:

Brodie you would have more people believing you if you stopped posting articles from well known conspiracy theorists.

 Local and Federal news hardly qualify as "conspiracy" stuff.

 

It's here now, especially in chinese vehicles.

 

Customer will decide. Not for me, especially with the animosity between China and Taiwan and the US's situation.

 

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Since when has NEWSWEEK, and especially PEERS WANT TO KNOW been conspiracy publications?

 

A good tip - Peers is free and is run by very respectable organisation - suggest everybody at least have

a look at it. So much insight into current and past affairs and consequences. Simply, in my opinion,

the best and most unbiased site on the web !!!

 

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-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Monday 30th of September 2024 07:28:02 AM

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Unfortunately Brodie, Peers Want to Know website is as biased as the other media that you feel is not telling the full story.

Its just that Peers bias is more in line with your own thinking.

Not a criticism, just a reflection on how the world is.

ALL media has a bias to some point of view, like it or not. That is my opinion of this.

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