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I'm looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone's kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone's data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.

I've tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about and can provide a link?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean its illegal for me to modify my own car's sound system?!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Absolutely can be. They have a SIM card or an alternative of it. It's registered and tampering with it can lead to stuff up to real jail time (IMEI change)