A group of security researchers from Berlin reckon they've successfully hacked/jailbroken Tesla's onboard computer and unlocked hardware features that come with the car but you need to pay to enable, like increased acceleration and heated seats/steering wheel. They used a "known voltage fault injection attack against the AMD Secure Processor (ASP), serving as the root of trust for the system" and it is "unpatchable". Full details to come in a talk they're giving at a conference next week. Dunno if I'd fuck around with jailbreaking my Tesla. Wouldn't put it past them to void the warranty should they ever detect its been tampered with. But when the car is out of warranty? I'm tempted.
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