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Comment on Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free

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 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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jhulten@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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- AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s where every industry is striving for. To continually get paid for something forever.
  
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  - jhulten@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We call them landlords until we call them compost.
    
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- Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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JesusFistus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Tesla shutting off jailbreaked cars would be illegal in Europe at least

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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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  - 2ez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Couldn’t they add a hardware chip that acts like a tamper seal?
    
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    elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s the thing that gets jailbroken.
    
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    ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Depending on how it’s implemented, beating it will be a matter of shorting some circuits. See how PS1 and 2 were jailbroken with modchips.
    
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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unless they find a legal workaround. They can probably do it, if they claim it makes the car unsafe.
  
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restingboredface@wayfarershaven.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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- DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s already been done on farm vehicles, why not cars
  
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- tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Since it is a software lockout then we can have the software freedom conversation instead.
  
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