But what if you wanted a black box just to mess around with that doesn’t share your driving data with the world? Just make one. [TheForeignMan]’s DIY telematics box was designed to pull ...

In the case of closed-source software, the white hats arguably have the offsetting advantage that they at least can see the source code, and peek inside the black box, while the attackers cannot.

Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, has supported standardizing black-box data, so accident investigators can use it to improve the safety of future vehicles and crashes.