Its sad that we are regressing from high quality to low quality voice telephony. Telephone companies are already petitioning (rather silently) to remove any aspect of regulation from the state utility commissions. I got a tattered postcard in fine print from CenturyLink explaining about such a hearing that will take place in .. get this .. 4 days on a weekday. I suspect they don't want the public to be very aware of this.
Soon, the last saviors of communication, the battery bank powered analog telephone line with cold war reliability, will be replaced with garbage DSL/VoIP modems that crash on a daily basis with choppy audio... yay.. i can't wait for another actiontec. This is going to be the replacement for the "landline". Seriously.
That's assuming they'll provide it at all. I'm assuming if they get someone to overturn universal service regulations, some rural, less profitable communities may be deemed not worthy to keep providing service in at all.
I'm sure just the idea makes the cable companies feel all warm and fuzzy.
No need to map it out, as the LEAF provides the current or last navigation destination lat/lon in the request as well! Most LEAF drivers will probably have something programmed in, as the car provides range information and traffic re-routing functions based on destination.
I am having a hard time determining if its the vehicle making the actual request, or if the request is somehow proxied from the Nissan CARWINGS data center. If its just the CARWINGS data center, that is probably a really easy fix.....but if its the car....ugh...
Only the car can transmit its own gps and heading data. If it gets to the logs of your own web server, it came from the car somehow or another. If its glommed on to the request on its way through the CARWINGS datacenter after arriving there by another protocol, that's worse. It means they're hoarding the data in their cloud and your privacy has never even crossed their minds.
The IP number in the log is from a block in Japan, named GLOBALEV-IT, belonging to Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Traceroute shows it's reached via tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net, which suggests that it's actually in Japan, not just allocated to a Japanese company.
Given that the location in the article is somewhere in/around Seattle, I'd say it's pretty clear that CARWINGS is proxying the request.
Soon, the last saviors of communication, the battery bank powered analog telephone line with cold war reliability, will be replaced with garbage DSL/VoIP modems that crash on a daily basis with choppy audio... yay.. i can't wait for another actiontec. This is going to be the replacement for the "landline". Seriously.