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Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free (www.thedrive.com)
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Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free::A group of security researchers claim to have found an "unpatchable" jailbreak for some Tesla vehicles, potentially unlocking in-car purchases

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[–] 126 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

This how people are gonna find out how bad of an idea to allow the manufacturer to have that much control over your car after purchase. Tesla will shut their cars off if they find them jail breaked.

Just like the guy that wasn't allowed to fix the cooling hose on the battery Tesla's only option was to replace it. A third party fixed it but he still had concerns that they would shut it off (citing safety) because he wouldn't buy a whole new battery after he fixed it. Also barring him from quick charge stations was another concern.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Neo-feudalism at it's best. Make them pay the manufacturing costs but also make them rent the thing they paid for

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    “make them rent the things they paid for” makes my blood boil. Like paying for a Wi-Fi router each month even though after a year it’s all paid off, they’ll still just charge you for it, literally free money by the millions for them. Fuck you Comcast.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Tesla shutting off jailbreaked cars would be illegal in Europe at least

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)
    • jailbreak
    • disable all traffic from certain apps
    • add all tesla domains as 0.0.0.0 on /etc/hosts, just to be sure
    • ride off into the sunset
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Couldn't they add a hardware chip that acts like a tamper seal?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Unless they find a legal workaround. They can probably do it, if they claim it makes the car unsafe.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They can't just claim shit when people start suing them

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's pretty easy to convince most people that ANY hacking is unsafe. It probably wouldn't be that difficult to make a convincing argument, and as the maker of the car, they have a lot of authority.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They will hve to provide evidence that explicitly links hacking to safety problems that have occured in real life, never gonna happen

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    OMIGOD please let us not have the right to repair conversation about fucking cars.

    But this is probably where we are heading unfortunately.

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