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As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 MiO cars. Amazing detail and patterns. This is why I don't want a smart car 🤯 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen/ #Volksdaten
It doesn’t default insecure anymore and it bitches at you when you try to make it public.
My bet would be that It was either a pre-existing bucket, or some team put a “temporary” measure in (making it public) instead of using the API to pull the data until they got around to implementing it correctly.
“Accidentally”
From what a gathered, it was the classic misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket.
It’s criminal how AWS still makes the default configuration insecure.Edit: apparently buckets are private by default now, haven’t set up S3 in a while.
It was also the classic “collecting the information to begin with,” and it’s criminal how that is allowed, too.
It doesn’t default insecure anymore and it bitches at you when you try to make it public.
My bet would be that It was either a pre-existing bucket, or some team put a “temporary” measure in (making it public) instead of using the API to pull the data until they got around to implementing it correctly.