I am surprised this hack is almost never mentioned in "your car is spying on you" articles. Removing the cellular modem is about as important when it comes to privacy as degoogling or disconnecting your "smart" TV from the Internet.
Yeah, I have a Ford F150 lightning. I just pulled fuse 8. I periodically connect it so I can receive over the air updates. I hope it doesn’t store all of its data and then upload it all at once every time I put the fuse back in.
I am surprised this hack is almost never mentioned in "your car is spying on you" articles. Removing the cellular modem is about as important when it comes to privacy as degoogling or disconnecting your "smart" TV from the Internet.
To be fair, many of the newer cars make it more difficult/permanent because they barely built in and not connected via a bridge/wire.
what if it's saving all that data offline and it gets uploaded during maintenance when they connect diagnostics or something?
I was going to ask about this. Is there any documentation official or otherwise about how to take ones car offline?
It will be model and year specific. Mine happened to have a second board connected by a bridge.
Yeah, I have a Ford F150 lightning. I just pulled fuse 8. I periodically connect it so I can receive over the air updates. I hope it doesn’t store all of its data and then upload it all at once every time I put the fuse back in.
I can't imagine it's designed to not log unless it had a live network connection.
You should use ForScan and disable the telemetry completely
That’s great, I didn’t know you could use software to do that and guarantee disconnection. Thank you!
You do understand that cars are designed to be in situations where they don't have network access for some time? parking underground and stuff?
Well my thinking is maybe the telemetry module (which has no power) might be doing the logging itself.
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