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I watch this guys youtube channel. What he did was awesome. He still has issues with tesla updates. I guess telsa won't update his vehicle because it's a salvage. I think supercharging still works. Best of luck to the guy hope he can make more progress with his vehicle.

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Reminds me of Microsoft's need to handle security updates on pirated copies of windows. It is more dangerous / costly to their legitimate users and the rest of the internet to have pirated copies without the updates floating around than the cost of the freeloaders.

I believe there were points with windows xp where this was not the case.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-pirate-bootleg-secu...

I'd like to know what he did that disabled Tesla updates. I might actually start to develop some interest in owning a Tesla, if there were some procedure I could follow to disable all the remote backdoors Tesla has left embedded in their rolling computers.

Do you have a plan for installing safety-critical updates?

If the firmware in that car is so fragile that any such thing as a truly safety-critical update could still reasonably exist after they've been out on the road this many years, then I definitely don't want to drive one, and I'd prefer not to share the road with them either. On the other hand, if there actually were some epidemic of Tesla crashes due to faulty firmware, the intense media scrutiny they've experienced would almost certainly have turned it up by now; so I'm willing to believe that any updates they'd be trying to push would not, in fact, be safety-critical.

Tesla has made a couple of things public which were safety critical updates, such as this one:

http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/tesla-ota-airbag-fix/

which also refers to an earlier incident where they made charging at home more tentative to avoid faulty plugs causing fires.

Thanks for the link. Ok, that's pretty clear, no Tesla for me.

Iirc they disable updates for all cars when they're junked, so they would have been disabled by the time he got it.

You can pull the SIM in the car to disable access.

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