Power-Up Software 4.1.3 pushed

[christooma]

“Easy listening improvements”?

lol this forum will not appreciate the vagueness on this one

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[Logal727]

Does everyone who got this already had 4.1.2?

 

[Hammered]

Er, no thanks to connecting to random hotspots. You can haggle ATT down to $15/mo unlimited and have better cellular connectivity via the vehicle's higher gain antennas than you get on cellular.

I cloned one of mcdonald's wifi hotspots to catch a thief that transited back and forth in an area by deducing they likely took advantage of the free wifi there. A camera at one of the bottlenecks combined with a very low powered radio, I was able to monitor which phones passed through this area, and then link their owners to the surveillance footage.

Publicly accessible wifi is not your friend, don't have your devices auto-connect to them unless you know what you're doing on the security front, particularly with how powerful cheap network hardware can be on not only spoofing certs, but tearing apart every data packet and putting them back together just as fast as your device can transmit them.

 

[Logal727]

They keep talking about software updates over Wi-Fi, but it almost never uses WiFi to download them. I know there is a setting on the backend to require WiFI, I wonder if one of those is coming soon?

 

[Logal727]

Er, no thanks to connecting to random hotspots. You can haggle ATT down to $15/mo unlimited and have better cellular connectivity via the vehicle's higher gain antennas than you get on cellular.

I cloned one of mcdonald's wifi hotspots to catch a thief that transited back and forth in an area by deducing they likely took advantage of the free wifi there. A camera at one of the bottlenecks combined with a very low powered radio, I was able to monitor which phones passed through this area, and then link their owners to the surveillance footage.

Publicly accessible wifi is not your friend, don't have your devices auto-connect to them unless you know what you're doing on the security front, particularly with how powerful cheap network hardware can be on not only spoofing certs, but tearing apart every data packet and putting them back together just as fast as your device can transmit them.

that's basically how any geolocation service works without gps, database of home addresses identified by their surrounding wifi networks sold to the top bidder

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Nice. But what might even more nice is if we could see those still on 3.5.4 or so, get updates pushed to their vehicles.

 

[Neil4Real]

Er, no thanks to connecting to random hotspots. You can haggle ATT down to $15/mo unlimited and have better cellular connectivity via the vehicle's higher gain antennas than you get on cellular.

I cloned one of mcdonald's wifi hotspots to catch a thief that transited back and forth in an area by deducing they likely took advantage of the free wifi there. A camera at one of the bottlenecks combined with a very low powered radio, I was able to monitor which phones passed through this area, and then link their owners to the surveillance footage.

Publicly accessible wifi is not your friend, don't have your devices auto-connect to them unless you know what you're doing on the security front, particularly with how powerful cheap network hardware can be on not only spoofing certs, but tearing apart every data packet and putting them back together just as fast as your device can transmit them.

What point are you even making? If you're a thief, don't use public WiFi? Cool. Connecting to a WiFi hot spot to watch YouTube will be fine.

 

[Jimrpa]

I guess the improvements don't apply to heavy metal?

Or punk ?

 

[DYohn]

I was able to connect to Starbucks wifi from their parking lot a year and a half ago...

 

[Jimrpa]

Just logic. Ford wouldn't have conspicuously left 2021 and 2022 cars out of the BlueCruise 1.2 announcement if they had any intention of rolling it out to them in a matter of weeks.

Excuse me - logic and Ford PowerUp announcements? ???

 

[Logal727]

"Easy listening improvements to make the Apple CarPlay app easy"

I've read this probably 20 times and I still don't understand what it's trying to say.

 

[Hammered]

What point are you even making? If you're a thief, don't use public WiFi? Cool. Connecting to a WiFi hot spot to watch YouTube will be fine.

No, it's a significant security risk.

 

[generaltso]

Excuse me - logic and Ford PowerUp announcements? ???

It's Ford logic. If they say when something is coming, it means that it will come a long time after that. If they don't say when it's coming, it will be a long long time.

 

[DYohn]

"Easy listening improvements to make the Apple CarPlay app easy"

 

[Jimrpa]

Er, no thanks to connecting to random hotspots. You can haggle ATT down to $15/mo unlimited and have better cellular connectivity via the vehicle's higher gain antennas than you get on cellular.

I cloned one of mcdonald's wifi hotspots to catch a thief that transited back and forth in an area by deducing they likely took advantage of the free wifi there. A camera at one of the bottlenecks combined with a very low powered radio, I was able to monitor which phones passed through this area, and then link their owners to the surveillance footage.

Publicly accessible wifi is not your friend, don't have your devices auto-connect to them unless you know what you're doing on the security front, particularly with how powerful cheap network hardware can be on not only spoofing certs, but tearing apart every data packet and putting them back together just as fast as your device can transmit them.

I have no clue what you’re talking about? Did you catch the Hamburglar?

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