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Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

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Re: Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

#5

This is harmless fun right? Like it's not like this will cause damage in anyway or impact security?

Yes, the port will close automatically. It is a bit fragile and vulnerable piece of thin plastic when open, but all in all a harmless prank.

Re: Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

#6

This is harmless fun right? Like it's not like this will cause damage in anyway or impact security?

No, but this is a good demonstration of how insecure Teslas are.

You can steal a parked Tesla with a $10 homemade device.

Re: Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

#10
This reminds me of living in the suburbs with every wifi device using the same SSID from the manufacturer and me hosting a bunch of stuff at home (MythTV, web servers, etc) and dns pointing to internal ips — these days, I just host it all publicly with authentication). Friends had trouble staying on my WiFi because they would connect to someone else’s wifi nearby. So I wrote a phone app that connected to people’s routers, logged in with factory defaults and changed the wifi SSID to something from a random word list. Then I just went for a walk around the block…
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