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
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.
A car with features locked behind a paywall is a broken car. These hackers simply fixed the car.
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Ol’ musky gonna be mad. He might call the jailbreakers pedos.
Only person who doesn’t have to pay his bills is Elon. God, he’s an objectively awful person.
No feature of a car should be extra cost on top of the car.
It makes sense for remotely provided services, like satellite radio, distant remote start via cell signal, etc. But not for hardware already in the damn car.
Yeah, I get paying server fees for stuff, but when it’s just “unlocking” software that’s already there or enabling hardware that already exists, it’s just a cash grab.
Agree 100%
Simp harder
Relax, you just didn’t read my comment properly.
i fucking hate capitalism so much
Can it set the car into offline mode?
This issue is going to end up landing in front of the right-wing, pro-business Supreme Court, isn’t it??
I can see it now. Tesla is going to write some software that detects this patch. They might not be able to stop it, but they can lock these cars out of the Supercharger network and potentially brick the cars. Buyers of these vehicles are going to sue Tesla. Probably go back and forth in the courts for a few years until it ultimately reaches the Supreme Court.
Softlooking features will be a thing, regardless how much we despite it. At the same time, it would terrify me knowing that vehicles around me ciuld run on homebrew software. It’s one thing if its in your home but on public roads, naaa keep that shit locked down.
I can see a future where the law enforcement are shifting from testing intoxication to running validating software checks.
Is this what Elon tells you, on the monthly meetings? 🤔
It’s all about responsibility and that man ain’t touching that except if it will gain the brands an extra exposure.
A modified computer is already being checked for in CA emissions. No matter how good the car runs, if you have a non-approved or factory tune you can’t register the vehicle.
Homebrew isnt the issue, since it’s not like the stuff coming from Tesla or any actual car maker has to go through a third party approval process. They just throw software updates out to the wild. And while they may have some internal testing, there just isn’t the regulations to verify any of that.
I’ve found the whole concept of software assists in general to be the wild West in automotives.
It depends where you live, here the certification unit only check the actual exhaust, there is no law here that prohibit me to use any software to adjust my CA emissions as long it’s with in limits during testing it’s OK.
Agree to point where just calling a beta feature Autopilot is just reckless.
I mean CA as in California.
