https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/tags/obd-ii-dongle/Recent content in OBD-II Dongle on The Lone C++ Coder's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 12 Aug 2015 09:24:03 +0000https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/12/why-im-suspicious-of-the-car-insurance-dongles/Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:24:03 +0000Timo Geuschhttps://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/12/why-im-suspicious-of-the-car-insurance-dongles/<p>Some security researchers from UCSD <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-cut-corvettes-brakes-via-common-car-gadget/">showed a proof of concept exploit via one of the dongles</a> that appears to be also used by car insurance companies to monitor your driving &ldquo;to give you discounts for good driving&rdquo;. I&rsquo;m not really a fully paid up subscriber of the tin foil hat brigade but stuff like this makes me glad that I&rsquo;m still opting for the old-fashioned way of paying for car insurance. Of course the fact that over half our fleet is too old to be OBD-II compliant may have some bearing on that as well&hellip;</p>