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- Apr 21, 2025
Kinda unrelated, but this reminded me of a friend i had that bought a totally legit, 100% not stolen, electric scooter or something like that. They were one of those scooters that you have an app for, you have to activate it online, all of that.all modern cars have totally proprietary infotainment bullshit.
After a couple of weeks of using this totally legit, not stolen electric scooter, it suddenly stopped working because i think it had been disabled by the actual owner on the company's website. Then i, as a more tech-savy person, started googling about that type of stuff to see if there was any way to just bypass all of that shit and just get that shit to work, and to my surprise there is a community of people who just brainstorm ways to get these (stolen) vehicles to work, basically jailbreaking these stolen eletric scooters.
I mean, it's all fine and dandy when my methhead friend who knowingly bought an eletric scooter is getting fucked, but imagine if it's a subscription service and they just turn off your shit because your credit card expired and you forgot to put a new one there to pay for it.

