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Thousands Of Tesla EVs Can Be Located In Real Time, Security Researcher Finds (insideevs.com)
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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 13 points 4 months ago

I know we all hate Teslas, but in this particular case it’s user error. It’s an open source tool that owners can deploy on their own to track their vehicle’s performance and metrics. The researcher basically found a lot of instances of the tool deployed in the public internet without any authentication set up.