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Nissan Leaf reports its location and everything else, scared of getting stranded somewhere

June 18th, 2011        

Nissan Leaf reports its location and everything else, scared of getting stranded somewhere

That awkward looking electric car above certainly looks innocent enough, but it might have been spreading some pretty detailed gossip behind its owner’s 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.





SOURCE via Casey Halverson

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  • Skipintro

    The Mercury News reports today about a Leaf owner whose car got stuck in Oakland. He was found murdered.

    Leaf owners are mentally ill. These cars stink. A sane person would get an efficient gas car, or a “Volt” if he wants to appear green.