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This link was posted by Koenvh 2 hours ago on HN. It received 112 points and 49 comments.
Is your car spying on you? It looks like the sound was that of an old style modem. Why would it be sending off data at the push of a button, though? Perhaps that is the reason why they did not want to publish the info in a manual. However, if it depends on you to push the button, it doesn’t seem like a good way to spy.
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