FBI can turn your phone mic on? NICE

[benenglish]

Not a surprise. For how many years have we known that OnStar could be turned on, without your knowledge or permission, to listen to whatever happens inside your car?

 

[Coop45]

Not a surprise. For how many years have we known that OnStar could be turned on, without your knowledge or permission, to listen to whatever happens inside your car?

So, if you say that your new pressure cooker is the bomb, there might be trouble?

 

[hkusp1]

Not a surprise. For how many years have we known that OnStar could be turned on, without your knowledge or permission, to listen to whatever happens inside your car?

They shut my aunts car off by accident one time. She had used her onstar for directions and instead of giving her directions they activated the theft alert and turned her car off while she was on the highway.


Sent from a creepy ass cracka.

 

[oldguy]

It is strictly regulated and has oversight.

I love true believers and they delivered us our current government.

 

[breakingcontact]

These pukes work for us remember? The politicians need to be voted out and the bureaucracies defunded until they respect our constitutional rights.

 

[winchster]

These pukes work for us remember? The politicians need to be voted out and the bureaucracies defunded until they respect our constitutional rights.

When have you ever seen bureaucracies defunded? We are too far down the road to "win" at the ballot box, all we can hope for is to slow down the inevitable.

 

[Brains]

They shut my aunts car off by accident one time. She had used her onstar for directions and instead of giving her directions they activated the theft alert and turned her car off while she was on the highway.

Not a surprise. For how many years have we known that OnStar could be turned on, without your knowledge or permission, to listen to whatever happens inside your car?

The last GM car I bought came with OnStar. The first thing I did when I got home, was to unplug the module and set it on the shelf in the garage. It stayed there until I traded in the car. Just reading their agreement / terms of service document will send chills down your spine. Thanks, but no thanks. I was happy to give up the Bluetooth integration and speakerphone functions in exchange for not allowing complete, wireless control over my vehicle.

 

[Younggun]

The last GM car I bought came with OnStar. The first thing I did when I got home, was to unplug the module and set it on the shelf in the garage. It stayed there until I traded in the car. Just reading their agreement / terms of service document will send chills down your spine. Thanks, but no thanks. I was happy to give up the Bluetooth integration and speakerphone functions in exchange for not allowing complete, wireless control over my vehicle.

But what would you have done if your car were stolen by a crazy right wing extremist hell bent on working hard and supporting his family without government assistance. They wouldn't even know it because you wouldn't let them listen in to insure your safety. Wouldn't even be able to track your GPS.

 

[Renegade]

New flash-

Big Brother has pretty much been built-in to almost all technologies since the mid 90s.

 

[M. Sage]

New flash-

Big Brother has pretty much been built-in to almost all technologies since the mid 90s.

There's a VOIP program called TeasmSpeak, used pretty extensively by gamers. Apparently one of the reasons they upgraded from TS2 to TS3 was that in some countries, it's illegal to use a VOIP program that doesn't have a built-in government back door, which TS2 lacked.

I'd like to know which countries those are, and if ours is one of them...

 

[kusai]

There's a VOIP program called TeasmSpeak, used pretty extensively by gamers. Apparently one of the reasons they upgraded from TS2 to TS3 was that in some countries, it's illegal to use a VOIP program that doesn't have a built-in government back door, which TS2 lacked.

I'd like to know which countries those are, and if ours is one of them...

Pretty much all gulf countries. Government blocked VOIP Ports and made providers use other Ports they could snoop on. Or we had to do a VPN for each client and get around it.

Sent from the black hole

 

[TxDad]

Yes! Now I have an audience when I sing in the shower!

"Speak softly and carry a big stick!" ~ Theodore Roosevelt

I would like to see their faces when they turn my camera on and see my poop face

 

[Brains]

But what would you have done if your car were stolen by a crazy right wing extremist hell bent on working hard and supporting his family without government assistance. They wouldn't even know it because you wouldn't let them listen in to insure your safety. Wouldn't even be able to track your GPS.

lol. When I told the dealer salesLoser I wasn't activating OnStar, he went as far as to tell me "I can't let you leave the lot until you activate it! It's against the law!" It got a little heated when he wouldn't accept "no thank you" and kept blocking my path, so I told him to fetch his manager and my contract, because it was about to be torn to shreds. The sales manager came and corrected him, and I was on my way.

 

[caleb7]

I would like to see their faces when they turn my camera on and see my poop face

I imagine whoever is assigned to that job would instantly feel they aren't being paid enough for it.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick!" ~ Theodore Roosevelt