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I can't imagine the amount of penetration testing they'd need to do before opening up core components of a car. I would not want to be in charge of that project.
Of course they'd never open that up, that was just me dreaming.
When I bought my 2009 Ford Fusion it was marketed as having "Microsoft Sync", the Sync name has stuck around but I haven't seen any mention of Sync being or derived from Microsoft technology in Ford's marketing in the last couple year (nor in the article). I wonder if that is still the back end of it or if Ford rebuilt Sync from the ground up?
Nice, I like the forward thinking by ford on this. I only wish next they open up the engine controller, and let the real hackers in!
The Nissan Pathfinder for example has a pin on the ECM that when grounded loads the engine profile from the upper 256K of RAM vs the normal lower 256K of RAM. If you modify an engine profile to set limits of 5 MPH and 1000 RPM and load it into the upper 256K and wire that pin to the dome light switch, you have an amazing anti-theft system.
Since we are on the topic: I wish Tesla would finally live up to their obligations and release the GPLed parts of their product (that includes, at a minimum, the Linux kernel with all modifications).
That aside, what do you hope to gain from their GPL compliance? Pop open the GPL compliance kit from, say, a Netgear router and you get a kernel, a few drivers, and the toolchain used to build it. And BusyBox. How useful will the drivers for things in a Tesla be to you? Do you own a Tesla, or is it just curiosity?
If it's curiosity, well, I wish we weren't enforcing that with the GPL.
Nice, I like the forward thinking by ford on this. I only wish next they open up the engine controller, and let the real hackers in!
They had at that time a parallel cable (remember those printers) interface to their engine that would let you get all kinds of information. I coded to it - it was quite fun.
Nice, I like the forward thinking by ford on this. I only wish next they open up the engine controller, and let the real hackers in!
The real hackers are already in. ;) The Nissan Pathfinder for example has a pin on the ECM that when grounded loads the engine profile from the upper 256K of RAM vs the normal lower 256K of RAM. If you modify an engine profile to set limits of 5 MPH and 1000 RPM and load it into the upper 256K and wire that pin to the dome light switch, you have an amazing anti-theft system.
Anyway, haven't immobilizers all but stopped drive-away car theft?
This sounded awesome right up to the point that they said that this was a hotly pursued space due to advertising potential to a captive audience. If I am in my own car and my music is interrupted with an ad every time I drive by a McDonalds - I would find that extremely annoying. On the other hand, if you could lease a car at a subsidized price in exchange for ads, that might be an attractive offer to some.