Israeli companies have developed and are selling advanced cyber tools that can hack into the tech of your car and use it to collect intelligence on you.
Three years ago, Haaretz revealed the existence of the offensive cyber intelligence company Toka, which was co-founded by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and a former Israel Defense Forces cyber chief, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Yaron Rosen. The firm specialized in hacking into security cameras, but as documents obtained by Haaretz at the time revealed, Toka also had a product called CARINT that fused camera data with data linked to cars.
At the time, the industry was in its infancy. But industry sources say that Toka has since expanded its offering on cars. It has developed and even sold a product capable of hacking into a specific vehicle’s multimedia systems, pinpointing its location and tracking its movements; that is, a specific model by a specific manufacturer. The technology can even remotely access the microphone of the vehicle’s hands-free system, allowing eavesdropping on the driver, and even tap into cameras installed on the dashboard or around the car.
Crazy Ehud Barak the same guy who allegedly trained Epstein as a Mossad spy and lived with him for five years? What a coincidence
Fuck cars. I’m car free and glad to be. My bike doesn’t spy on me. And I don’t really fancy getting an e-bike that requires an app just to work. The only thing spying on me is my Android phone.
100%. If you can bike, that’s both good for your health, AND reduces surveillance.
We need to push for better bikability especially here in North America. Fortunately my city is good, but so many others are not. Especially for older people who may not be comfortable mixing it up with cars if they bike.
Of course also now Flock cameras are everywhere, who watch bikes as well as cars. There is no plate on a bicycle, but I have seen allegations they can perform biometric ID of pedestrians and cyclists.
Those Silicon Valley based bikes that you rent with an app, pick up when you see it, leave it where your destination is, do have cameras and microphones on them I believe, and gps. They totally do spy on you, and by extension your phone, which it turns out is a terrible gossip.
Agreed. I don’t carry a phone today, but I am considering getting a dumbphone + Faraday pouch for emergencies.
And yah, “smart bikes”… eww.
I am planning on switching to open source anyway. I think I need to buy a graphene phone for that though, my android I don’t think is capable of loading a different OS, but I’m not savvy that is just what I recall someone telling me.
Definitely a faraday pouch as well, one that is waterproof and protective to boot even but pocket sized if possible. It’s probably good not to have all those rf waves right next to your balls anyway.
There’s also Lineage OS. I don’t know how good it is, but it supports tons of devices.
Every day I feel more justified in keeping my 1990s car running.
(I’d also like to walk or take public transit, but the infrastructure here is car dependent)
I love my dumb ebike. It’s so much easier to maintain and I know what all the technology does.
I wonder if they can hack into millions of cellphones and get them to self detonate using the battery as the explosive material? Is that possible, just wipe out out millions of people just like that? If they could they would.
Likely not. The beeper terrorist attack had a special explosive planted. Phone batteries can overheat but not explode rapidly.
Now as for car batteries I’m not sure. Maybe they can make them explode or catch fire while locking the car doors.
Or it can cause the car to get out of control and crash, assassination perfectly looking like an accident.
