PSA for Subaru owners
Posted: Jan 24 2025 12:09 pm
https://www.wired.com/story/subaru-loca ... wtab-en-us
I am sure this is not just for this manufacturer
I am sure this is not just for this manufacturer
“While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines,” Mozilla's report reads.
“It seems like there are a bunch of employees at Subaru that have a scary amount of detailed information,” Herrell says. “People are being tracked in ways that they have no idea are happening.”
there's literally a button on Subaru's admin panel that lets an employee view location history.
This article says nothing about the cameras and microphones in the vehicle, and what they likely record and send the manufacturer. That private conversation you had? If you ever did anything in or near your vehicle?The two researchers say they found the email address for a Subaru Starlink developer on LinkedIn, took over the employee's account, and immediately found that they could use that staffer's access to look up any Subaru owner by last name, zip code, email address, phone number, or license plate to access their Starlink configurations. In seconds, they could then reassign control of the Starlink features of that user's vehicle, including the ability to remotely unlock the car, honk its horn, start its ignition, or locate it, as shown in the video below.
Remember when I posted screen shots of photos taken by a Tesla dashboard camera?