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Your car may be spying on you. No fewer than 65 percent of 2004 model year passenger vehicles have Event Data Recorders. Better known as black boxes, EDRs store information about the vehicle and driver inputs only when there’s a crash. Otherwise, they rewrite over themselves every five seconds or so. The boxes are getting […]

Your car may be spying on you. No fewer than 65 percent of 2004 model year passenger vehicles have Event Data Recorders. Better known as black boxes, EDRs store information about the vehicle and driver inputs only when there's a crash. Otherwise, they rewrite over themselves every five seconds or so. The boxes are getting so popular that this fall the US Department of Transportation is standardizing what data gets collected - like speed and whether the brakes were activated. But generally only cops and insurers have the data retrieval equipment. Hey, hackers: How about some counterintelligence?

- Kim Zetter

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