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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That’s an absolutely disgusting combination of words.
“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!”
Only usable for current emergency. Once current emergency is abated, points expire.
micro-transactions in video games and media was only a test. Now it’s transitioning from the digital to physical world.
Man, at this point I just hope I don’t see any lootboxes with limited time features in a car.
Oh shit, once they invent some sort of LCD paint that allows your car to be a blank canvas… you know that shit is going to happen.
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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.)
Car armor, only $2.99!
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.
LOL
i fucking hate capitalism so much
Can it set the car into offline mode?
Watch Dogs: Legion has inspired everyone to find exploits in the cars’ systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
