Don’t tell us where you’re going, Nissan Leaf driver, we already know (video)

That cute little bugger above certainly looks innocent enough, but it might have been spreading some pretty detailed gossip behind your back. Leaf-driver Casey Halverson was playing around with the RSS reader in his Carwings system when he discovered that it wasn’t just collecting feeds from RSS servers, it was also telling those servers his car’s current location, speed, heading and even the destination he’d set in the sat nav. Strangely, Halverson’s undercover tattletale appears to have halted its indiscretions after he posted the discovery on his blog, but we’re surmising there’s still hundreds of server logs up and down the country that prove it really happened, not to mention his video after the break. Cue Rockwell , fade to black. Continue reading Don’t tell us where you’re going, Nissan Leaf driver, we already know (video) Don’t tell us where you’re going, Nissan Leaf driver, we already know (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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