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Last December, Ashley Sehatti sold her 2015 Jetta back to a local Volkswagen dealership in California. So when the calendar turned over, she didn't understand why she was still getting sent monthly reports about the car's health. After another one came in April, she finally logged on to VW's online portal for Car-Net, the telematics system that runs in many of the company's modern cars.
To her surprise, Sehatti saw the location of her old Jetta on a map, up-to-date mileage, and the status of the car's locks and lights. It had been resold, and yet she still had access to some of the car's systems. "There was nothing in place to stop me from accessing the full UI," she says over email.
What Sehatti hadn't realized is that Volkswagen puts the burden of disabling access to Car-Net squarely on the customer in its terms of service agreement when they decide to sell or exchange a car — even if the car is going back to a VW dealer.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/4/17303644/volkswagen-car-net-security-location-access
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @12:23PM
It was dark. It was almost too dark to see, but if one strained their eyes, they could still manage. If one looked down the long portion of this relatively narrow space, they could see old, tall brick walls to both their left and their right. It was a city alleyway. A man stood in the center.
Something was hanging from the man's buttocks. Upon closer inspection, knowledgeable individuals would be able tell just what it was that was hanging from this man. Yes, it was the man's prolapsed rectum. But this was no ordinary rectal prolapse; it hung down to the back of his knees. The man was very proud of his prolapse, to the point where he insisted on constantly being naked. This man, whose name was Worick, was actually very famous and respected in this city for this very reason. Worick looked down.
Blood. Bruises. Tears. A naked woman was lying on the ground, under Worick. What had occurred here? The man's fundamental rights had been violated. Earlier, Worick had commanded the woman to suckle on his prolapsed rectum, but she refused. She refused, thus violating men's rights. As such, seeing her in such a state was only natural. After lecturing her about freedom, Worick decided to use his fists to once against dispense justice. The man moved.
Slam! Slam! Slam! Each time the man's fists collided with the woman's flesh, she became more and more silent. Each time the man moved, his prolapsed rectum jiggled every which way. It didn't take long for silence to take hold over the alleyway. Justice had been wrought.
Minutes later, a man with an excessively large prolapsed rectum was seen leaving an alleyway; what he left behind was a corpse which embodied injustice itself...