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I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly. Sadly you cannot really buy any new Car that is.

Has anybody any experience on making your modern car not phone home to its company, by removing the hardware it uses to do?

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[โ€“] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or just put a power test attentuator on the antenna output.

It essentially absorbs the RF from the antenna and radiates it as heat. Since cell is pretty low power (1/2 watt max, IIRC), and a cell radio will stop trying to transmit after a while (though it will try again), I don't think it would cause any problems.

But I'm not an RF engineer.

[โ€“] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

The newer cars from the company I worked for were always trying to phone home, not sure about other companies but this one was trying to lock you into the online ecosystem.