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Maybe slightly off-topic but in general, do people buy random electronics over the internet and connect it to their car? Feels like a overly easy way of hacking
by capableweb 6y ago
Maybe slightly off-topic but in general, do people buy random electronics over the internet and connect it to their car? Feels like a overly easy way of hacking a massive amount of cars, by simply having them buy a thing you connect to your already IoT-ified car, and allow anyone to read and control your car.
Seems like the detection feature from Tesla is meant to provide this, rather than preventing 3rd party mods. As I would never connect anything to my cars IT systems, I would happily receive a warning if the car did detect something like that.
- kortex 6y agoSounds like a great way to put yourself out of the tuning business. Unless we are talking some Ocean's 11 style scheme where you make a tuner company just to get their exploit into cars, all to be turned on at once on the big day.
- Balgair 6y agoThey aren't 'random' per se. Typically you'd find one online and look at the reviews and ask people on forums about it. The aftermarket car audience is very online, much like HN. Getting into it, again like with programming, requires a fair bit of knowledge/mistakes. But, you gain knowledge and get better over time. If the electronics screwup your OBC, you can just get a new one. If they screwup your wiring or blow your engine, well, you don't get into cars if you don't want oil all over your arms. Blowing things up and rebuilding engines is part of the 'fun'.