To: upchuck
"Articles like this give me new respect for my 2004 Silverado.
AFAIK, it has no connections to the outside world. If a FReeper knows different, please let me know."
Do you have an OnStar button in that truck...?
24 posted on
07/21/2015 10:20:53 AM PDT by
Rebel_Ace
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To: Rebel_Ace
Do you have an OnStar button in that truck...? Nope. When I was looking for a Silverado, I found several that had OnStar. Rejected them out of hand.
There is an Internet of Things. But it doesn't include any of my things, other than this PC.
51 posted on
07/21/2015 11:38:56 AM PDT by
upchuck
(There is no coexisting with those who want to destroy us from within.)
To: Rebel_Ace
Even if it did, the OnStar systems of the time had an analogue/AMPS cel phone interface—Verizon was the preferred provider, and they shut down their analogue network in 2007/2008, taking down those, and anything else that ran on the analogue network. (Upgrades *were* available for some of the more recent models, but that was optional)
Also, this is why I happen to like classic vehicles. Not a single solid-state device in sight!
Installing electronic control systems, therefore, is at MY discretion. If the need arose, I could engineer a system from the ground up, optimised for maximum security.
61 posted on
07/21/2015 3:05:14 PM PDT by
__rvx86
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