UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
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Hey maybe we shouldn't have a world where car companies can remotely deactivate your vehicle if you say mean things about them?
If car companies can't remotely deactivate your vehicle, how will they be able to extort you and harass you and sell you out to the police?
This has been standard in every car made after 2003
If your car is newer than that, the police can request the car company disable your engine.
It's fucked up and evil, but it isn't new, just the first time it's been blatantly abused
I think you're off by a decade there. My 2010 car has no mobile connectivity.
Cars having satellite gps has been standard for most manufacturers since the early 2000s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system
My guy doesn't know anything about how GPS works
Not suitable for this.
GPS is a purely one-way method, with the satellites transmitting only their position and a timecode, leaving the receiver to do the triangulation. And if they did send any sort of custom data packets over that method, it would just confuse the crap out of every other receiver across most of the world, causing potential device crashes, drawing attention from ham operators worldwide...
And also massively pissing off the US military. Turns out a lot of their equipment and munitions make use of GPS and INS, so fucking with those satellites is a no-go.
And? Tell me you have no idea what GPS is or how it works.
You might be off by a couple of years there. And even if you aren't, the 3G network those cars would've relied on for communications has been shut down so remotely doing anything to your 2004 car today would be impossible.
Off by a decade or so.
Wrong, that didn't start until like 2015 or later even.
I believe before that.