<p dir="ltr">I have been around cars for a long time and the only thing I could imagine it would be used for is to come up with some sort of memory of how you drive to help out with how your vehicle will preform.  Disconnecting it without the computer being bypassed could cause really bad issues for your car. I would research it and go from there. However my opinion is to leave it alone.</p>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2014 3:29 PM, "Kyle Centers" <<a href="mailto:kylecenters@gmail.com">kylecenters@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">The stop using computers?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2014 3:27 PM, "David" <<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


  
    
  
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    Don't care what it's for.  I don't like being spied upon.<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Just curious but why would you want to disable it?
        Presuming it does not emit a signal and is simply a data
        recorder in the vent of a crash.<br>
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          On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:20 PM, WebDawg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webdawg@gmail.com" target="_blank">webdawg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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                <div>I would think about, from what I have read so far,
                  instead of disabling it (says integrated into
                  electronics) figuring out a way to auto wipe it.<br>
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                <div>It looks like it records around the crash, and has
                  limited capacity.<br>
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                  <a href="http://wiki.hackspherelabs.com/index.php?title=2010_Chevy_Equinox" target="_blank">http://wiki.hackspherelabs.com/index.php?title=2010_Chevy_Equinox</a><br>
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                Chevy has a GMLAN interface that lets you do all sorts
                of stuff, i never got into it but you can intercept and
                send commands.  if the box is linked to it, that would
                be a start.<br>
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                Someone just interfaced with a car at defcon or some
                conference I thought.<br>
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              You are going to have to hack it.  I mean read this (i
              know it is crappy fox news)  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/03/04/toyota-secretive-black-box-data/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/03/04/toyota-secretive-black-box-data/</a><br>


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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:12
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                      Just discovered my Toyota truck has a "black box,"
                      a data recorder in it.  How can I disable that
                      <censored> and still have the truck work?<br>
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                      Thanks,<br>
                      David Merchant<br>
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