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Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Also isn't it Mazda's fault for creating an API that anyone can access and get information from? Someone in Mazda IT is probably frantically looking for the email chain where he was told to "just make it public" so our outside analysts can use it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think yes, assuming nobody grabbed an API key out of the Mazda app or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Quite often these integrations just take the authentication token or cookie during OAuth or the normal login process.

Actions like that would be impossible with WEI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! I love Google.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This is a joke

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