The way Android Auto connects, your phone connects to bluetooth on the car, then they set up their own little WIFI between them. That’s why it doesn’t work on VPNs that don’t allow split tunneling.

I mean forcing a reconnect to capture the handshake is exactly how I used to speed up WIFI cracking back in college. You would need that to break in a car’s wifi in the time it’s at a red light.

Where I’m from, France, it’s not so bad I think. We have pretty strong privacy laws I feel. But now I’m in the US so yeah. I’m in cybersecurity so I see the difference with what employers are allowed to do. Also Flock cameras popping up everywhere. There are a couple near me that make me lose Android Auto’s wifi everytime I drive by them so I’m thinking it’s intercepting stuff.

Yep and then devs solved the problems of these damn IT sec people getting in the way and created “SecDevOps”. Oh it’s lean and Agile and everything but it’s dev and sec and production all in the same bucket with all the well known problems of pushing things too fast and not checking or testing enough (see CloudFlare etc).

Lol this is so weird