<![CDATA[Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You]]>Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You

Pardoned mechanic Matt Geouge has built a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée realized investigators were following her. Now he braces for steep opposition from manufacturers as he unveils his new product.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/09/25/meet-the-pardoned-delete-mechanic-who-wants-to-stop-your-car-from-spying-on-you/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/05b47567-83a5-48c1-aea4-cfb46f21412f/meet-the-pardoned-delete-mechanic-who-wants-to-stop-your-car-from-spying-on-youRSS for NodeTue, 29 Sep 2026 03:58:55 GMTMon, 28 Sep 2026 02:32:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:55:29 GMT]]>@jjtech @DeniseG Yep, the more of this article I read the more alarm bells it set off as "scam" and "marketing disguised as reporting."

Deeply unimpressed with the descriptions of "genius" over something that can be accomplished with a wiring diagram from the owner's manual and a screwdriver.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/bluewinds/statuses/117346882626339820https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/bluewinds/statuses/117346882626339820Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:55:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:40:22 GMT]]>@jjtech @DeniseG
Are you claiming that cars don't send data to manufacturers? That's hard to believe.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/taoish/statuses/117346823227083473https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/taoish/statuses/117346823227083473Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:40:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:39:01 GMT]]>@androcat @xinit @DeniseG
Maybe? Why don't you point us to some of the others, then?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/taoish/statuses/117346817901872105https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/taoish/statuses/117346817901872105Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:39:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:34:16 GMT]]>@DeniseG

“My truck isn’t quite as complex as the newer ones,” said Jones. “You’ve got like the satellite radio, because that tracks you, then you’ve got the GPS.”

This is like, a fundamental misunderstanding of how satellite radio (and GPS) work...

GPS and satellite radio are both passive technologies... they recieve radio from satellites, but they don't transmit anything

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346799198392219https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346799198392219Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:34:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:26:56 GMT]]>@xinit

But can you trust a bad guy?

No, you can not.

He's not the only one who knows how to do this, the others just aren't trying to make it a product (with likely backdoors for ICE).

@DeniseG

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117346770400557993https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117346770400557993Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:26:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:24:53 GMT]]>@DeniseG I'm not convinced the emissions changes should have been pardoned, since emissions actually cause harm to others. But stopping techno-stalking is God's work, if there is a god worth our consideration.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sandiegourbanists.com/users/acdingman/statuses/117346762323153894https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sandiegourbanists.com/users/acdingman/statuses/117346762323153894Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:24:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:19:32 GMT]]>@DeniseG For example:
https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/vdirsnet/OwnerManual/Home/Content?countryCode=USA&languageCode=EN&Uid=G2427688&ProcUid=G2427689&div=f&variantid=10113&vFilteringEnabled=False&userMarket=usa&buildtype=web

See Fuse 11, "Telematics Control Unit"

You don't need some "genius" defeat device, the TCU is the only module with a cellular connection.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346741283122969https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346741283122969Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:19:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:18:08 GMT]]>@DeniseG This is nonsense...

I happen to know Ford vehicles, and the telematics module he's talking about is literally on it's own fuse.

Ford points out where this fuse is, and if you remove it, you'll lose cellular remote start capabilities and OTA and literally nothing else.
(It won't even nag you!)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346735783639093https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jjtech/statuses/117346735783639093Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:17:55 GMT]]>@androcat
Yes, and that's gross. Defeating clean air controls in vehicles may be wrong.

However, deleting car company tracking, cameras, data collection. Sounds good to me.

@DeniseG

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.coffee/users/xinit/statuses/117346734929897735https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.coffee/users/xinit/statuses/117346734929897735Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:17:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:55:20 GMT]]>@DeniseG

That "pardoned" is good reason to assume he is a bad guy.

You know who pardoned him.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117346646120814111https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117346646120814111Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:55:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:33:21 GMT]]>@DeniseG An article about a felon convicted for violating the US Clean Air Act and subsequently pardoned by Trump.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/emilion/statuses/117346559708340874https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/emilion/statuses/117346559708340874Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:33:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:27:25 GMT]]>@DeniseG @darkuncle Great article. Dude lives up the road from me.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/scottwilson/statuses/117346536352691947https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/scottwilson/statuses/117346536352691947Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:27:25 GMT