Posted on 02/03/2021 9:21:25 AM PST by RideForever
I filed a police report a couple of weeks ago about a caller selling extended car warranties. Several months before I had received a notice from our Dept. Motor Vehicles that inquiries were made against the 2 vehicles parked in my driveway. So when the call came about extended warranty shortly thereafter, I thought it might be a scam and reported it.
Three days ago I get a call from a local number about extending my car's warranty, ..., ... I really didn't hear what he was saying because suddenly my phone turned BlueTooth (BT) on, and I immediately set my options to turn it off. I spoke a couple of words and BOOM! The BT light came back on, and a menu of devices, including my car remote access, was displayed. As soon I could I shut off BT and disconnected the call. The BT did not return. I also recall the menu of devices displayed ATT UVerse. Phone is a Samsung 8. Car couldn't respond because it was at the shop across town.
I never considered that a function of my phone could be turned on or off from a phone call. Had the BT link been established, would my car's computer surrender my travel history and device IP (including VIN)? Could a phone call received when I am driving be used to send a signal to disable the car somehow? Could malware be downloaded to my car's Android computer? This ties my phone to the address / name of my vehicles at DMV.
If you get any texts or emails from a girl named “Fang Fang,” you probably don’t want to open any attached photos.
Americans are spying on Americans...
The chicoms control many Amelicans...
“Is China Spying on Americans?”
And Americans are spying on China, and India, and Pakistan, and Russia, and Iran...we’re all spying on each other. Everybody know what everyone had for breakfast today.
Spying is a group grope. It’s very fashionable and everyone is playing. You might be able to find a remote village in Africa or Siberia that is not spying. But you will have to look real hard. And it has been going on for a long time.
wy69
Ask the bear in the woods.
Yes to all of your questions. Bluetooth is not secure. If you want moderate security, use only free software. If you want better security, avoid the trivial conveniences. Use a cellphone only for voice communications with people. If using the cellphone for emergency web browsing while out, use only free software for browsing. Avoid a few particular Internet sites and services, and we all know which ones. Use all devices only through a VPN.
I still use a key instead of a remote for the car. When being used, the remote can be cracked by someone sitting in another vehicle nearby.
I doubt that Chinese are spying on you, BTW. Some physically much closer to you might be doing so.
What phone do you use?
With some firsthand experience with this in real life, and extensive research and communication with others, it looks like the most likely scenario is we have an extra-governmental actor that has penetrated our government so completely it has taken our intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies over, either directly as a non-state group of elites who fund the biggest CIA_like intel op in the world and are taking over governments like we were told our CIA took over central American banana republics, or through China, which they also have penetrated and control, or perhaps most likely through a combination of the two.
Whatever the source, the extent of the sum total of the intel operation targeting American citizens, using our governmental agencies and local informant networks arrrayed everywhere, is astonishing.
There are many NGOs, and they all sprang from academic circles. That’s where we started losing a long time ago: in education. It was cheered in women’s studies classes during the 1980s. No one wanted to listen to those few of us who issued warnings about that. I’ve brought it up many times here over the years. Now, they’ve finally arrived at their last goal for taking over everything: “getting the good ol’ boys.”
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