Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed

Posted by Soulskill on Monday June 13, 2011 @09:54AM from the gotta-watch-those-hippies dept.

thecarchik writes "An intrepid tinkerer has discovered yet another security issue with the Nissan Leaf: it could be revealing your location and speed to websites around the globe. The issue stems from CARWINGS, the telematics system that Nissan devised for the Leaf. '... when Leaf owners use Nissan's RSS reader to access sites like CNN, the New York Times, or this one, CARWINGS supplies ... the exact location of the vehicle — latitude and longitude — and even the speed at which the vehicle is traveling at the time of the request.'"

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Re:As cars get more tech... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-13 12:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

if the socialists would stop placing tracking electronics in modern more efficient cars people would have one less reason to avoid them.
Re:MPG? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-13 12:46 · Score: 1, Insightful

I bet Starbucks can provide the demographics of pretentious eco-snobs that live within 25 miles.