Hacking my Tesla Model S
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Hacking my Tesla Model S
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Re: Hacking my Tesla Model S
#2So much lacking details that it could be a total fake…
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#3If the story holds, I think it is interesting to know more details about why Tesla has chosen Ubuntu server as the underlying OS and nothing else?
I can see that ubuntu server has proven itself in a lot of real-world environments, but wouldn't they have to run their own fork of Ubuntu at some point? Or is the distro management toolchain in the Ubuntu world more advanced than for example some bsd or centos?
Edit: I am talking about the output on this screenshot: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e08E6tXwQvc/VwSTUbXgFDI/AAAAAAAAA...
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#4a) Useless article
b) Previously on HN [1]: 12 and 16 [2] hours ago, the first one has some (mostly: 'The article is light on details') discussions.
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#5Tesla heavily disappoints me here. This looks like pure PR:
- It is a blog with only 1 entry.
- The Whois entry is "WhoisGuard Protected" in Panama: http://who.is/whois/www.su-tesla.space . Very bad timing with the #panamapapers. The non-technical depth and the naive writing let me imagine that a junior social media employee could have done it. And I'm disappointed if Tesla hired such people / let an intern write a PR article.
- There is no mention about the previous testimonial of the guy who tried to hack his Tesla, received a disabling upgrade and a phone call from Tesla. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255160
- He pretends to have done "2 months of research". What could be researched? There is no public documentation and the hackerspace is still empty. At the very least he would have mentioned that he managed to overcome the item above.
In the best case this is an organized leak from Tesla: Let's hope they'll use this channel to unofficially explain how to hack the Tesla.
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#6If the story holds, I think it is interesting to know more details about why Tesla has chosen Ubuntu server as the underlying OS and nothing else? I can see that ubuntu server has proven itself in a lot of real-world environments, but wouldn't they have to run their own fork of Ubuntu at some point? Or is the distro management toolchain in the Ubuntu world more advanced than for example some bsd or centos? Edit: I am…
It's likely they've modified the kernel (version number agrees), but why would they want to fork Ubuntu?
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#7a) Useless article b) Previously on HN [1]: 12 and 16 [2] hours ago, the first one has some (mostly: 'The article is light on details') discussions. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441113 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440612
Dang,
Can we ask for an investigation here? I'd like to know:
- Do the IPs of the 3 people who posted the articles match an IP of Tesla Motors?
- How did the 3 people discover the articles?
- How come they posted different urls, with different titles, to the same article?
If my intuition is correct, you might flag the accounts; but even more interesting is you might happen to uncover an deceiving behaviour from Tesla. Passionating!
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#8He yada yadad' over the best part
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#9a) Useless article b) Previously on HN [1]: 12 and 16 [2] hours ago, the first one has some (mostly: 'The article is light on details') discussions. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441113 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440612
Dang, Can we ask for an investigation here? I'd like to know: - Do the IPs of the 3 people who posted the articles match an IP of Tesla Motors? - How did the 3 people discover the articles? - How come they posted different urls, with different titles, to the same article? If my intuition is correct, you might flag the accounts; but even more interesting is you might happen to uncover an deceiving behaviour from Tesla…
Do companies like Tesla have identifiable IP blocks in this day and age?
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#10It's good you can root what you own but you'd think something like a $50K car would have a locked bootloader that prevents root like a $10 phone does.
Waiting for the EFF lawsuit that you should be able to root your car without voiding the warranty (and then lobbyists paying congress to prevent that, then in 10 years the supreme court deciding).