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Interestingly I can't get ChatGPT to help me find a video showing me how to disable the cellular modem on my Subaru 2024 Crosstrek. Time to do some old-fashioned research, I guess... https://chatgpt.com/share/692cde57-0930-800e-b45f-7a41ca5c8e...
Who cares about what ChatGPT can't do? It can't make me a sandwich either.
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The first 100yr of automobiles didn't have TPMS and it was mostly fine.
I mean if you consider that death rate per mile driven 'mostly fine'
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Are you sure about that? My understanding was that the eCall self test does not connect to a network. That’s stated on the eCall page linked above. Do you have a source that contradicts that?
Yes, I am sure. Annex VII only rules out connecting to the PSAP/112 side, not routine network attaches. To detect faults in the “means of communication”, the IVS has to verify that the SIM, baseband and RF path are actually usable, and you can’t test that without a network attach. In practice that’s what all current eCall implementations do. The modem attaches to the cellular network at each ignition so it can confir…
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Are you sure? I seem to remember people getting burned for publicly disclosing security vulnerabilities after stubborn agencies refused to fix them for years. Stuff like, exposing thousands of SSNs through a public gateway... We are literally having this discussion on URLs because of famous cases where people DID face unfair treatment. I don't recall any actual fix for this legal chicanery either. If you do, I would…
> I seem to remember people getting burned for publicly disclosing security vulnerabilities after stubborn agencies refused to fix them for years. Stuff like, exposing thousands of SSNs through a public gateway.. This has never happened in the US on the federal level. Unless your definition of "getting burned" is a nasty email from a clueless non-LE government worker. > We are literally having this discussion on URLs…
>Two things can be true at once: what Swartz did was in fact cool and laudable, it still shouldn't be legal. Similarly, a reasonable person might consider it cool and laudable to punch a nazi, doesn't mean it should be legal. We live in an age where people call other people Nazis as if uttering the accusation gives them a free pass to infringe on the rights of those people. Even if it could be proven to be true, the facts would not grant them any such right.
Theft and unprovoked assault are neither cool nor legal. I don't care if we're talking about absolute assholes, either. For each and every one of us, there is probably someone in the world who thinks that they should have our property and have the right to attack us.
>Swartz killed himself, so the CFAA must be bad, but it's probably realistic to assume that Swartz did not kill himself because he was scared of spending a few months in prison. He was likely seriously mentally ill, and a victim of the poor state of the US healthcare system, not of the CFAA or the DOJ.
Idk that much about this case. It seems to me that Swartz was in a hell of a lot of trouble, that could have gotten him a prison term along with financial and career ruination. He clearly should not have killed himself but that kind of stress can make people lose sight of the future.
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> I seem to remember people getting burned for publicly disclosing security vulnerabilities after stubborn agencies refused to fix them for years. Stuff like, exposing thousands of SSNs through a public gateway.. This has never happened in the US on the federal level. Unless your definition of "getting burned" is a nasty email from a clueless non-LE government worker. > We are literally having this discussion on URLs…
Have a look at this: https://m.slashdot.org/story/180969 Clearly there is precedent in the US and elsewhere for prosecution based on accessing URLs. Politicians have even argued that you should not be able to tamper with website source code in your browser, or otherwise use websites in any way not anticipated by the owners. >Two things can be true at once: what Swartz did was in fact cool and laudable, it still shoul…
"prosecution based on accessing URLs" is a dishonest way of describing this case. It's a prosecution based on accessing URLs with malicious intent, while the persons responsible knew they were not intended to access said URLs.
That's like saying "prosecution based on walking through a doorway". Well yeah, except it was the middle of the night and the door to someone else's house had been accidentally left unlocked.
>Idk that much about this case. It seems to me that Swartz was in a hell of a lot of trouble, that could have gotten him a prison term along with financial and career ruination. He clearly should not have killed himself but that kind of stress can make people lose sight of the future.
Swartz had good lawyers; he was certainly aware that he wasn't in big trouble. He was facing neither financial nor career ruination. The damages he had caused were far from enough to result in financial ruination. The charges had made him even more of a celebrity and would've been a boost to his career.
https://volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/
https://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-a...
Orin Kerr, a top subject matter expert addressed this extensively. In the second part he also offers the best criticism of CFAA, which is that it's almost entirely redundant given the existence of very broad wire fraud statute.
And for what it's worth, Swartz had been spending a lot of time thinking about suicide for years before the whole JSTOR debacle http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying
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Not possible when things are 10+ mile apart and a general grocery run takes 3+ hours and you can't carry more than a backpack, so you have to do it multiple times a week.
The US is ripe for an e-bike revolution. The distances, the wide roads with plenty of room for bike lanes, and the revulsion against things like Flock... Unfortunately it's as likely as this being the year of the Linux desktop because Windows 11.
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it may be better to code out TPMS anyways. I had a BMW that wouldn't allow you to enter Sport/Sport+ when TPMS light was on, what a drag.
Does TPMS have any connection to BMW traction control?
Remove the antennas. Do not give in to the mirage of convenience. Use a stand alone generic GPS. Vehicle GPS devices are anti privacy for so many reasons. Listen to stored music from an SD card if terrestrial radio (NO SATELLITE). Did you know almost ALL late model cars can play a TURN YOUR PHONE OFF. Your phone does more than track you - the Bluetooth and wifi beacon scanners are always running. When you come across…
I like the rest of the comment, but... >Did you know Orange dash error lights are non critical? That's not even remotely true for most cars. One of the most critical alarms you can get in a car is a flashing check engine light, which are usually orange.
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I like the rest of the comment, but... >Did you know Orange dash error lights are non critical? That's not even remotely true for most cars. One of the most critical alarms you can get in a car is a flashing check engine light, which are usually orange.
Those are usually red, although I don’t know if it’s actually SAE standard or not, I’ve only worked for one automotive company (and we made them red)
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Does TPMS have any connection to BMW traction control?
No it does not. There’s a wheel speed monitor sensor (that works via a magnet and little ridges… and is a pain to replace). That’s what the DTC (and probably ABS) uses
TPMS, at ~400MHz, is a potentially valid input for traction control in certain cases, and potentially, a road quality and location signal as well.
Once all the data is available, tested, analyzed, and applied, there isn’t going to be much left to do but smile, smile, smile.