Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Oh my, that's frightening!
Well, it's simply linked with the car in exactly the same way it was when my dad owned the vehicle. It's doing what it should be doing by design. There's nothing that would prevent anyone in a similar situation and with malicious intent from remotely starting the vehicle numerous times a night, and if it's parked in a garage attached to a house, asphyxiate an entire family. This sort of thing has been in the news before (although maybe not intentionally and done remotely as far as I know). Manufacturers either don't think about these things, or don't care. As I said, my dad isn't a smartphone guy and doesn't think about these things (or doesn't think about potential ramifications); had I known ahead of time before he traded in the car, I would've told him to at least (a) get the dealer to unlink the vehicle from the app and (b) disable the garage door opener, as I'm sure the current owner - unless he's replaced it with his own - could drive by and open my dad's garage with the button in his car. Heck, I've lost count of the number of times where people have shown me their "new" car they bought second-hand, and I've shown them the previous owner's phone details, and things like where they live and work because they forgot to clear the "Home" and "Work" buttons from the GPS software. If dealers don't smarten up, car owners need to.