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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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How to hack your Tesla (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Unlock heated seats and full diagnostics by turning off the power to the amd chip exactly when it's checking authorization. This exploit is very tricky though and requires soldering three wires to the board, so not for the faint of heart.

This is the full talk of the article posted on lemmy a few months ago, but Black Hat only recently posted the full video.

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

turning off the power to the amd chip exactly when it's checking authorization

I'm sorry, are you telling me that jailbreaking a Tesla is as simple as duplicating Pokémon in Gold and Silver?

[–] Cyyris@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago

The more things change, the more they stay the same, I suppose.

[–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

you wouldn't download a seat heater would you?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Elon will sue you if you do this. Or at least rage on twitter that he will.