Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free

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Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free
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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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Tesla shutting off jailbreaked cars would be illegal in Europe at least

  • 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

Unless they find a legal workaround. They can probably do it, if they claim it makes the car unsafe.

They can't just claim shit when people start suing them

It's pretty easy to convince most people that ANY hacking is unsafe. It probably wouldn't be that difficult to make a convincing argument, and as the maker of the car, they have a lot of authority.

They will hve to provide evidence that explicitly links hacking to safety problems that have occured in real life, never gonna happen

Or they can just brick it, like Apple does with iPhone, when people jail break them.

Did Apple ever lose a lawsuit on that? You put to much trust in the system.

Apple doesn't brick your iphone if you jailbreak it