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> Tesla reverse engineers regularly look inside of what’s running in the cars and that’s not the case at all How are they doing this on the software stack? Any

• jowday 2y ago
  Same way reverse engineer get access to internals of other devices - a bunch of tricks. :^) In one case, greentheonly realized some fraction of Tesla’s cars are shipped out of the factory still in dev mode, with debug mode enabled and increased privileges. He found someone with a car like this who was down to helped and swapped part of his cars hardware with their car, and from then on was able to get a much better view of what was running on his car. Unfortunately twitter is awful to search and a lot of his info is buried deep in old threads, but a few (old) examples to illustrate that he regularly does this. Visualizing the outputs of the models running in the car: https://x.com/greentheonly/status/1404164587927314435 https://x.com/greentheonly/status/1404164587927314435 Tesla’s dev debug menus circa 2020: https://x.com/greentheonly/status/1336467014727110656 https://x.com/greentheonly/status/1336467014727110656 It’s been a while since I’ve worked in the space so I haven’t followed green as closely.
  • spankalee 2y ago
    Wow, thanks!