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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Depends what you want to do. They don't require a network connection to operate as a vehicle. So if you don't care about the remote app features (local ones such as lock/unlock still work over BLE), live traffic, streaming music or updates, then a network connection isn't necessary.

If you do want any of those features, then you would need to either get root access to the gateway and infotainment systems to modify the endpoints or take over the C&C server (formerly named "mothership") domains and certificates.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The main things are removing the cellular connection and disabling the connection back to the Tesla services. Back in the old days you could pull the SIM card, root the center and driver's displays, setup firewall rules to block traffic to/from the Tesla servers, and disable the VPN.

This is more difficult with the newer models. You can still pull the SIM, but would need to get creative for root access since it is a continuous game of whack-a-mole between the root methods and patches.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Will certainly be a bummer if they do go under, I really appreciated their serviceability. Have several in the immediate family that have been going for over 7 years at this point though all kinds of calamities. Each time can I just pop out all the components clean/replace as necessary and get it back in service, good as new.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

The Atlanta Federal Reserve GDPNow is estimating that Q1 GDP is -2.8%. Originally it was predicted to be +2%.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Found the link to the SSA page describing the policy which took effect in 2015.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I set the VPN tunnel from the VPS to deny everything to the internal network by default, then put the services that need to be accessed on the allow list in the firewall. So the VPN endpoint from the VPS can only hit the very specific IPs/ports/protocols that were explicitly allowed. There is still the possibility of a compromise chain of VPS->service->container/VM->hypervisor->internal network access, but I feel comfortable with those layers.

You could also setup an IDS such as Snort to pick up on that exploit traffic between the services and internal VPN endpoint if extra security is necessary on top of fail2ban and log alerts on the VPS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is a fun rabbit hole. This was Nixon's presidency and right before the whole Watergate scandal broke, so probably lots of shady shit happening around then that help put us on this wonderful trajectory.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (18 children)

If this means high-speed rail from Vancouver to LA, sign us up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'll be curious to see which "select" smartphones will be eligible for the beta.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Most likely with an impact that severe, the passengers were either killed or incapacitated on impact, especially giving the fact none of the others were noticed trying to escape when the bystander broke out a window.

The front doors do have easily accessible manual releases on all of the models.

That being said, for the ones 'equipped' with the emergency feature for the rear, it is a manual release cable buried under the speaker grill, which is something very few passengers would know about in the first place, much less have the presence of mind or physical capability to remove the speaker grill and find/pull the cable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Will be interesting to see the an update to this map in about 2-3 years for comparison.

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