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Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free (www.thedrive.com)

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Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free::A group of security researchers claim to have found an "unpatchable" jailbreak for some Tesla vehicles, potentially unlocking in-car purchases

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

        jailbreak
disable all traffic from certain apps
add all tesla domains as 0.0.0.0 on /etc/hosts, just to be sure
ride off into the sunset

[-] 2ez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Couldn't they add a hardware chip that acts like a tamper seal?

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's the thing that gets jailbroken.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Depending on how it's implemented, beating it will be a matter of shorting some circuits. See how PS1 and 2 were jailbroken with modchips.

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