In Android at least, you can pair your device and not allow access to texts. Then you can have the phone read/respond, instead of the car.
s there a way to make an interface or to use an app like Signal so your texts can't get "legally intercepted" via bluetooth from all car manufacturers?
Submitted 11 months ago by snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still glad I’m rolling my 2000 Honda CRV shitbox with a Sony stereo from 2010 - when Bluetooth streaming to your car was just starting to be a thing. All the cheap plastic things are showing age but at least the thing can’t spy on me.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a '84 Mercedes 300D Turbodiesel. That thing will keep running after an EMP. It’ll even keep running when I take the key out (I got a vac system leak somewhere). I’m going to cry when that thing dies. It’s so not fussy either. Radiator instructions: “Try to use clean water.”
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hah. I drove an '85 300D Turbo diesel in the early 2000s. That thing was a fucking tank. I had to eventually get rid of it because the body was rusting apart. The engine still ran, and likely would have until the end of time. I extended the life a but by bolting metal rails under the seats to keep them from falling through the car into the road.
I miss that thing.
SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 11 months ago
In order for the car to access your texts you would need to pair the phone via Bluetooth and allow access to them. This is more about older systems from before Apple CarPlay and android’s equivalent where you were stuck with whatever features the car had rather than just letting your phone take over the entertainment system’s interface.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, buy a real car lol
mysoulishome@lemmy.world 11 months ago
can you connect audio directly to the car with a 1/4” analog input? Or connect a Bluetooth adapter to the 1/4” input and connect to that? Can you change to a car that doesn’t have the system that reads your texts?
TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t use vehicle integration between your phone and car at all?
You’re still trusting your phone, though. Unless you’re using something pretty custom like LineageOS, I’d be surprised if there was anything keeping other parties (Google/Apple?) from spying on your phone communications.
Maybe (maybe) there are regulations keeping your carrier from spying on the contents of your texts. (Maybe.) But (again, unless you’re going the extra mile and using LineageOS with F-Droid and no Google apps or something) I’d be surprised if there was anything keeping your phone’s manufacturer or evil apps from intercepting your messages.
But also, cars have worse issues than that. I just got a Subaru and their EULA says that by riding in or driving a Subaru, I agree to allow Subaru to record any audio in the car and use the audio to train AI and such. Subaru isn’t even the worst privacy offender. See here for more info.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Oh no, Subaru, no. Not like this.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Just read through that whole thing, and now I’m wondering when we’ll start seeing hacking tools to disable certain things, or diy manuals to remove the cabin microphone, etc.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I pray daily to Saint Louis Rossmann for such tools.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
We have that already. It’s called pulling fuses.
Substance_P@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seems like more and more there is a need for some kind of privacy inclined instructional website to come out like iFixit to tackle such things.