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

    • Patius@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      BMWs have had this, to some extent, for a while. Bimmercode can do things like change sounds and enable software disabled features, like anti dazzle lights. (This is disabled because the NHTSA refuses to adopt ways for them to be easily tested in the US, despite their being approved for decades in Europe and a congressional mandate telling them to allow them on the roads, so every automaker has to disable them.)

      No exploits needed.

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        1 year ago

        In the US, night driving is 1000000000% worse than it was back in the day when everyone had shitty headlights. Now we’ve got those damn HIDs retrofitted into the wrong enclosure blinding oncoming traffic 1.2 million miles away.