Totally disable onstar and tracking devices and black boxes ?
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Don't you feel you guys feel the black box is a larger issue, given its data can be used against you. I could care less if they want to know where I am or who I'm talking to, they'll be bored stiff, but in the event of an accident I hate to think the black box could land me in jail or worse given the case precedence which at least in one case I am certain of. Murder conviction!
I do know of another case, where a guy I know, crashed his car drunk, OnStar did its job & when the police showed he was swiftly carted away to jail for DUI. In this case, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving idiot both as a person & for drinking & driving, but again its something to consider.
From a safety standpoint, I feel the OnStar system, offers life saving technology, & would not consider disabling it. The black box however, offers no benefit to the owner I am aware of. Unless your car is stolen & you want to know how fast the thief got going before he totaled your vehicle.
I do know of another case, where a guy I know, crashed his car drunk, OnStar did its job & when the police showed he was swiftly carted away to jail for DUI. In this case, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving idiot both as a person & for drinking & driving, but again its something to consider.
From a safety standpoint, I feel the OnStar system, offers life saving technology, & would not consider disabling it. The black box however, offers no benefit to the owner I am aware of. Unless your car is stolen & you want to know how fast the thief got going before he totaled your vehicle.
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So now everyone knows the truth. NSA captures every, every, single electronic I repeat every single electronic communication.
This has been in place for over 25 years. Snowden brought it to light for the masses.
If you "mess" with you black box, onstar, etc, our friendly law enforcement friends, would likely use that as evidence of intention to destroy or impede case evidence..
Technology is a wonderfully horrible thing.. Two sides, boils down to the use of it. Although we believe we are protected from unreasonable search, that protection assumes our govt abides by our constitutional rights. They don't, and when revealed, they justify the means with the end..
Remember HIPAA... Well now the feds are actively reviewing their employees specific medical and health data. Justification: since the govt is funded by taxes.. They have an obligation to ensure efficient health care, hence their means to justify the end. There is no approval requested or required by the govt to perform this snooping of a fed employee..
This has been in place for over 25 years. Snowden brought it to light for the masses.
If you "mess" with you black box, onstar, etc, our friendly law enforcement friends, would likely use that as evidence of intention to destroy or impede case evidence..
Technology is a wonderfully horrible thing.. Two sides, boils down to the use of it. Although we believe we are protected from unreasonable search, that protection assumes our govt abides by our constitutional rights. They don't, and when revealed, they justify the means with the end..
Remember HIPAA... Well now the feds are actively reviewing their employees specific medical and health data. Justification: since the govt is funded by taxes.. They have an obligation to ensure efficient health care, hence their means to justify the end. There is no approval requested or required by the govt to perform this snooping of a fed employee..
Last edited by Nova10sec; 08-10-2013 at 07:27 AM.
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old thread- LOL all the people who said no one has time to monitor these things BUT now we find out the government has been all along! These are the very same arguments against people who own AR's.... people say "why would a citizen need that?" Maybe another 20 years from now they will find out just like this but in the case of guns and ownership it will be too late for all the naysayers!
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I know its a little off topic, but I feel like I am the only one that never had OnStar installed on an 07 corvette. I was shocked when I got in it at the dealer and didn't see the button.
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old thread- LOL all the people who said no one has time to monitor these things BUT now we find out the government has been all along! These are the very same arguments against people who own AR's.... people say "why would a citizen need that?" Maybe another 20 years from now they will find out just like this but in the case of guns and ownership it will be too late for all the naysayers!
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You'd better read this, it is 100% true..
Did you know that each "onstar" unit is identified via YOUR VIN number on YOUR car? Yep.. Do you realize "what" that means? I live in a small town, and am privy to some not-so-well known information.. Recently, I watched our local dispatcher track a suspect's vehicle by guess what? ONSTAR!! If they know the subject's name, then they can enter it and find all his registered vehicles via the tag registration.... If one has onstar, and he is in it, guess what? They have the same exact "tracking software" that the main onstar group has, FACT! I listened as the dispatcher told the patrol units exactly where the suspect's car was.. If my small town, of less than 4000 folks can do it, then any local PD can.. I immediately disconnected fuse 22 on my 2008 Silverado... Not sure which fuse does other models.. This is a true comment!
Did you know that each "onstar" unit is identified via YOUR VIN number on YOUR car? Yep.. Do you realize "what" that means? I live in a small town, and am privy to some not-so-well known information.. Recently, I watched our local dispatcher track a suspect's vehicle by guess what? ONSTAR!! If they know the subject's name, then they can enter it and find all his registered vehicles via the tag registration.... If one has onstar, and he is in it, guess what? They have the same exact "tracking software" that the main onstar group has, FACT! I listened as the dispatcher told the patrol units exactly where the suspect's car was.. If my small town, of less than 4000 folks can do it, then any local PD can.. I immediately disconnected fuse 22 on my 2008 Silverado... Not sure which fuse does other models.. This is a true comment!
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OnStar communicates through the cellular network. Basically, it is a fancy cell phone identified by its phone number the phone pings off cell towers just like any other cell phone and that is how you can be tracked. Because it is a cell phone it more than likely has the E911 location system active as do all new phones and that can be used to locate you. Don't worry they aren't tracking you because they really don't give a damn where you are. If they are interested you should also turn off your hand held cell phone.
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Paranoia of big brother runs deep here. With the MILLIONS of onstar systems and BILLIONS of cell phones in the world, not to mention the TRILLIONS of landlines that can all be easily tapped, who do you guys think has the time for all this monitoring? Yes it can be abused, but the abuser would just find another means to do his dirty deeds. If you aren't plotting murders or transporting drugs or involved in any other dubious activities, what's the problem? In the case of black box evidence being used against you, shouldn't you be held responsible for your actions? This is the problem with this world these days. Everybody wants to blame someone else for their stupidity. If you screw up, OWN UP!
The Edward Snowden NSA leaks clearly show that the USA intelligence services are systematically monitoring not just your source and destination IP addressing, but also the payload itself. It is all very well saying 'why fear if you have nothing to hide?', but this is a null argument. We all have things to hide. This is the reason we don't snoop on our partners, invade the privacy of our children and we allow people to live individual lives.
The NSA monitors car-networks and data and has access to onSTAR telemetry data. The advanced onSTAR and Car-Net modern modules are trackable and do provide real-time data to the NSA. Is this because those companies are passing the data legally to the NSA? No. It is because the NSA is 'tapping' the data-networks of every provider in our beloved country. Why go to the extent of tapping GPS and other signals when you simply need to collect data at the ISP data-centres instead? I happen to work in this area of expertise and can confirm that is is far simpler to perform than you may think. In addition, the number of whistleblowers from the NSA is such that we now know our country is monitoring the internet internationally but also domestically. Like you, I believe in solving accidents and improving discovery of the cause of an accident, but I do not simultaneously agree with mass government surveillance of our individual lives. To avoid 'big brother'-like statehood we must make some sacrifices in the mean time until there is a better legal framework in place to monitor *only* the criminals or people suspected. At present the NSA is monitoring *every* US citizen passively. Your data is pooled and a simple search of your name, social security number or any unique information can be used to dig into your life, including - crazily - remotely access your cell phone and, as per our forum here, our Corvette monitoring systems. The internet makes this far easier to monitor. I understand it may seem daunting to someone who is not in the Network Security sector, but once the software is designed it is easy to search BigData and reveal individual profiles, such as where you drive to regularly, who you text, what you text. It is important to care about this, because what is accepted now as social norm may not be accepted in future; in the past homosexuality was frowned upon and illegal. What if something you enjoy now will be illegal in the future?
The media has suppressed the Snowden leaks very well; international and European media is far less sanitised. I strongly suggest you read the output findings of these and familiarise yourself:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files
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It's not OnStar you have to worry about, but Facebook and everybody else they sell the data to.
Protect yourself now or pay for it later, but above all why make yourself an easy target?