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Volkswagen has been collecting geolocation data from their smart cars, which were accidentally made public (infosec.exchange)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Sure there is. Most people don’t have the hardware handy to do it, but at the end of the day it’s just a computer sending IPv4 traffic through an LTS cellular modem to an S3 bucket.

And if you know your car’s UDID you can probably look it up in said S3 bucket, since it was open to the public.