A group of security researchers claim to have found an "unpatchable" jailbreak for some Tesla vehicles, potentially unlocking in-car purchases

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

  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8414·
    11 months ago

    in-car purchases

    That’s an absolutely disgusting combination of words.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      251·
      11 months ago

      “It looks like you’re trying to flee a wildfire. However, you have just run out of Elon X Points and are unable to continue driving. Please wait 5 hours for your Elon X Points to replenish. Can’t wait? We’d like to offer you our once in a lifetime SpaceX Booster X bundle of 15,000 points for just $299.99!”

      • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        That unlimited monthly transit pass is looking pretty good right now.

        (Speaking as someone who doesn’t own a car and take public transportation everywhere.)

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • jhulten@infosec.pubEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

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

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago
        • 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
      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Since it is a software lockout then we can have the software freedom conversation instead.

    • riesendulli@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      Insurance will gladly deny you in case of accidents containing your licensed and jailbroken device. Don’t buy this shit in the first place

      • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        It would be incumbent on the insurance company to prove that you willfully circumvented the system. Given an accident serious enough, the Tesla’s computer could be physically damaged to the point where no data could be retrieved.

          • noqturn@lemm.eeEnglish
            43·
            11 months ago

            Insurance is generally not in the business of breaking contracts. If they have a legitimate reason to not pay, they won’t, but they won’t screw you over just because they don’t feel like paying. The risk is too high

            • halferect@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              Ummm… Insurance companies are all about finding ways to not pay and breaking contracts. You think average Joe can spend millions going against insurance companies lawyers? And what risk? They can hold people in court until they break them or they die broke from fighting insurance companies. Hell, my mother’s life insurance didn’t wanna pay and we had to get a lawyer just to make them pay a pretty straight Forward insurance policy.

            • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              11 months ago

              Insurances don’t want to lose in court but they will investigate and find reasons to deny a payout.

      • Patius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Insurance would have to prove the modification caused the accident by disabiling some safety mechanism.

        Legally, software mods and hardware mods are no different, and people have been modifying their cars well before you could hack a seat heater on.

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    A car with features locked behind a paywall is a broken car. These hackers simply fixed the car.

    • g0nz0li0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      Only person who doesn’t have to pay his bills is Elon. God, he’s an objectively awful person.

  • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    Nooo, think about daddy Melon, our saviour and inventor of all things! How is he going to save the world without his shitty car MTX?

    I want to go to mars, rocket-travel to Central Park, I want to have full self driving next year, use a Tesla tunnel and not get stuck in traffic, and maybe travel in a can in near-full vacuum! Maybe use X as my bank, when he has enough money to pay for the rent of twitter building.

    Pls think about all the inventions! Think about all the billions he could waste jerking his ego off by purchasing another community and turning it to shit!

    My god people, don’t sudo your cars and unlock features that are already installed, but disabled. Pls.

  • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Cool stuff.

    As far as I know, the full self driving codebase doesn’t get delivered to an end-user unless they’ve paid for the feature and have been “approved” through some safe driving algorithm. This means we’re unlikely to see free FSD for all unless somebody manages to capture the firmware package and upload it.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Can we stop call it FSD, it’s not. It’s just assisted driving, and if I have to be monitoring the entire time, it’s no more useful than cruise control.

  • Jeff@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    We will just jailbreaks and beta test everything until all of the FMD features promised by muskrat years ago come out of beta.