LLM asked to speed up car head unit exposes system-fixed SMS/call-log permissions
ngxson · x · 2026-10-25
Asking an LLM to "make my car's head unit run faster" produced a footnote with a privacy bombshell: the vendor grants READSMS and READCALLLOG as system-fixed permissions to every preinstalled app — including the DVR, which also has a cloud upload service.
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