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OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service
9/20/11
Posted on 09/21/2011 5:40:41 AM PDT by Libloather
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: car; onstar; service; tracks
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To: Libloather
I have a feeling I’ll be seeing an awful lot of tinfoil roofs on the drive home tonight
To: Buckeye McFrog
OnStar has detractors. I am not one of them. I travel the roads and my cell coverage is sometimes not relaible . The OnStar coverage for my vehicle gives me some peace of mind traveling alone. I am not paranoid. I just like the protection. I also like the reminders to my email on where my vehicle maintenence issues atand. Tire pressure to oil life comes through regularly. I appreciate it. I do not care if anyone knows where my GM vehicle is at any given time. When and if that time arrives, I will disconnect it.
To: green iguana
So, how would one disable it? I have a 2002 JEMMY, I simply disconnected the power.
To: sickoflibs
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:05:10 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
Wait till Obama-care puts a microchip in our heads with our medical records, and a GPS and transmitter LOL
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:07:40 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Over-taxed means 'paying too much in taxes', not zero taxes)
To: Krankor
I would think the Li batteries maintain memory — they don’t power transmit or receive.
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:09:41 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: sickoflibs
I have a selection of "implants" for anyone who tries that:
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:11:37 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Fresh Wind
"You might be able to defeat the Big Brother box now, but once they become mandatory in all cars (in the name of safety, of course), it will be illegal to disconnect them, and they will probably rig them so that the car wont run without the box in place."In all recent US Cars, there is a computer that controls the airbag system, and it keeps a record of your speed. I don't know how far back that record goes. I don't think the vehicle will operate without that computer. The "black box" has been used in court proceedings to establish the speed the car(s) were moving in accidents.
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:13:56 AM PDT
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matthew fuller
(Compromise on the Holocaust would have killed three million Jews.)
To: green iguana
“Whatever you do, do not cut the BLUE wire!!!”
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posted on
09/21/2011 1:11:59 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(I'm jus' sayin')
To: sickoflibs
"While they claim you can request that they don't monitor YOUR car's movements there should be a clear method of disabling the device in the car (by pulling a power connection plug) by customers when they no longer want the service."
That would make things to common sense. Mustn't go down that route.
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posted on
09/21/2011 1:16:25 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
To: oldironsides
OnStar has detractors. I am not one of them. ... I do not care if anyone knows where my GM vehicle is at any given time. When and if that time arrives, I will disconnect it. By the time you get to that realisation, you will no longer have the option to withdraw. Google "Tony Martin" among others in the UK where protecting your home or family is a criminal act. And recall - the process IS the punishment even if you're found not guilty.
Screw GM and OnStar - I will never have either.
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09/21/2011 4:08:59 PM PDT
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: green iguana
Nuke it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
To: Libloather
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posted on
09/27/2011 10:33:26 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
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