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Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.
by burrows 4y ago
Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.
- Barrin92 4y agothe NSA is certainly real, the likelihood of them bugging your car unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets is rather low the three letter agencies don't care about people who play video games and watch cat videos all day
- influx 4y agoIf this is America, it would be the FBI who has jurisdiction. If this was outside America, CIA would be more likely to be installing hardware on a vehicle. If you hear the guys breathing on your phone line, that's probably the NSA ;)
- burrows 4y agoIf your car has a networked computer it’s probably bugged/backdoored imo. (Talking out of my ass)
- fknorangesite 4y ago
- lrvick 4y agoIf it is a Tesla they advertise this as a feature.
- nebulousthree 4y agoYou make it sound like the NSA can never fail. If it's monitoring you then you are likely doing something deserving of monitoring. They can be wrong though and you'll still have been spied on and information collected for future use. Consider a career in politics, perhaps?
- brigandish 4y agoAnd yet they engage in mass surveillance, even of their own citizens.
- iratewizard 4y agoNo, no. That's done by the contractors they ship data to. Otherwise they would be breaking federal laws.
- natch 4y ago> unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets unless you're suspected of smuggling nuclear secrets ftfy
- worker767424 4y agoFor several months, keyless entry stopped working on my car. It fixed itself. My unlikely conspiracy theory is I was being tracked and interference kept the keyfob from working.
- jll29 4y agodepends what's embedded in your cat videos.
- 867-5309 4y agosublimiaow message? stegaMOGraph?
- hannasanarion 4y agoThe NSA isn't interested enough in you to send somebody to your house to break into your car and install a gps tracker.
- kevinh456 4y agoImagine if they got some in at an F&I company and convinced car dealers to install the surveillance without the installers even being aware of it
- kersplody 4y agoNah, the NSA doesn't need to bug your car. All cars after 2016 or so come pre bugged with an OnStar/StarLink/BMW Assist Remote/etc Telemetry System continuously sending data over 3G or LTE. Conveniently, the manufacturers already sell this data in an "anonymised" form. (cough Otonomo cough Wejo). Private companies are so much scarier than the NSA when it comes to privacy -- you have none -- your life's data is to be mined, brokered, and sold to the highest bidder. The NSA only cares about you if you are talking to a small number of known hostile foreign people who are already a party to a FISA warrant.
- toast0 4y agoWelp, my car is now effectively bug free. It shipped with 2G, got a free upgrade to 3G, because 2G was being shut down. It has an optional upgrade to LTE but the features don't justify the cost and the mounting is derpy (new modem is a different shape, so it's velcro + double sided tape)
- nephanth 4y agoI wonder how those telemetry systems work for EU customers. Cause that sounds pretty much illegal under GDPR (non-consented tracking, data stored overseas...)
- mellavora 4y agoWorks just fine. The major German carmakers have an alliance to share data, and treat cars as roving sensor networks. The data is used for improved road safety (real-time traffic jam awareness) and also so premium clients can find parking spots.
- closewith 4y agoDo you have a source for these claims? Without informed consent, they would be significant breaches of both national data protection legislation and the GDPR.
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- thinkingemote 4y agoThey are imagining being part or the target of a conspiracy. It's a paranoid quirk of American politics, all sides see scheming and conspiracy. Catholics, Communists, Woke subversives, or white supremacists. If you are part of American politics there is a mainstream conspiracy theory that your group has.