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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades (techcrunch.com)

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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades::A group of researchers found a way to hack a Tesla's hardware with the goal of getting free in-car upgrades, such as heated rear seats.

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[-] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 224 points 11 months ago

I'm amazed that it's legal for a car company to sell you something, and then after you own it, remotely disable xyz aspects of the functionality unless you pay them more. How can that be legal? I own the car, it's MINE now, how can I not use every single thing that's in it?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 133 points 11 months ago

Same reason it's legal for HP to brick your printer if you use third party ink. You violated their shitty TOS that none of us read because it's 80 pages of legalese, but you agreed to it.

[-] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

I really wonder if there's a way to use LLMs just to point out every concerning thing in a EULA/TOS

[-] sudo 16 points 11 months ago

To what end? Probably every eula/tos you click through has concerning shit that is against your best interest. Either you use the product or you don't.

[-] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah but I want to know just how fucked I am when I sign it

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

TLDR If you're the consumer, you're always the fucked party of a TOS.

[-] avapa@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That’s why EULAs or other contracts are not necessarily legally binding if they contain specific parts that could be considered “unfair”; at least in the European Union.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

You can give this a try

https://www.tosdr.org/

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably not ChatGPT because who knows what was in its EULA and we couldn't use it to summarize it before agreeing to it.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Bet you could but not sure what that would get you. So you don't click agree to it. Now what?

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