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Not sure if there is one, though, I have a feeling there is. I've done nothing to make the car be upset, though. My X session is running on tty1 while the car's UI is running on tty2. As long as the car's normal UI system is running everything is happy. If you shut that down, say, starting fluxbox on that X session (this may or may not have happened), the gateway freaks out because it lost contact and forcibly resets the CID. Also, the touchscreen's input doesn't come through X, the QT apps read it directly. Every now and then I have to just tap the corner of my screen while I'm working, even when I'm in my own environment, because when you are parked and sitting there the touchscreen will turn off after 30 minutes. I'll figure out a way around this eventually.

17 for me, and this is exactly how it is for me. Gentoo taught me Linux, and I have enjoyed it ever since. I use other distros as well, but Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart.

This is exactly how I think of it. No one questions people doing mechanical work on their car, but touch the software and you get crucified.

Yes, it has a gateway between the high level stuff and the low level stuff. It's fairly secure too. You can't just make calls to the can bus all willy-nilly either.

Yeah I absolutely love it. It's eating up all my freetime. I had to make sure last week to actually go out and socialize...

Dude is genderless! I'm just as much a dude as you are. Also, it doesn't really bother me :)

I link to it at the bottom of the post. The image captions are quotes that were inspired by very real quotes from that website.

It's incredibly complicated, but pretty secure. The CAN bus is isolated from the network. I have root access on the CID and the IC (both separate tegra systems). You can even reboot the CID while you're driving and you only lose media and air conditioning and such. Accessing the CAN bus requires going through a pretty secure gateway system, so you can only basically make requests. Even then, I haven't even really looked into that area much.

I have never driven while running any of my stuff. Also, this is the CID, it doesn't control those things. You can even reboot the CID while you're driving.

I was INCREDIBLY excited to be able to literally become the stereotype!

If you look at the bottom of my blog you'll see that the captions and jokes are referencing http://funroll-loops.info/

I even took some of my favorites from there and modified them to reference Tesla, and that's what the captions are.

Thanks :) This has been a really fun hobby :D

The stuff above is fake. The actual login is real. Running uname -a gives that same output.

JorgeGT, I'd just like to tell you, this is absolutely my favorite comment out of this entire thread. You completely made my day. I invite you to come over to my blog and post comments on every post from now on.

I never said the article was a howto. I only wrote it to document my experiences, not to tell people how to do it. It really doesn't matter if you find it useless; I don't owe you anything. I'm having a blast with this and made the blog because I thought others might be interested in seeing my experiences.

As for the actual HN posts, I only posted the first one, then moved on with my life. Others told me that the second one was then posted, so I went in there to clear up any misconceptions. I woke up this morning being told by a friend that this one had been posted.

- Yeah, it's a blog with 1 entry because I literally just set the thing up. I was up till 3AM Tuesday night.

- Namecheap's WhoisGuard. Do you really think I'd not try and protect myself? I was debating for a week whether I should post anything at all. Tesla sure as hell knows someone new is doing something somewhere. I'm trying REALLY hard to make it so absolutely nothing can be easily linked back to me. The "dramatic reenactment" had to be done. I have pictures of me actually rooting but the PS1 on the car is tesla@cid-<VIN>$ Can't really show that if I'm trying to be anonymous. Funny anecdote: I had posted it Tuesday night before bed, but I didn't show anyone. In the morning I was driving to work and looked down at my IC. So, you can name your cars, and the name I gave my car was on the IC. Sure enough, the factory mode IC picture had that name. It was a fairly unique name, and I had to hurry up and censor that one too.

- Sorry my blog doesn't pass your technical writing course. Thank God it's just a blog and I can write it however I want.

- There's no reason to mention the previous hacks from other people. Are they me? No. You can read that stuff somewhere else.

- Ahh, you caught me on the "2 months of research". That's the term I use when I'm actually saying "2 months of slacking." I was distracted by new coloring books for a while. Also I really didn't want to have to make the cable. I was trying to get a salvaged one for a while. Eventually I had to suck it up.

So, sooooorry to disappoint you that it's not an organized leak from Tesla and that it's not the "best case". I knew the post would be somewhat popular, but nowhere near this popular. I thought it'd be the later posts where I'm actually showing stuff instead of me just ripping my car apart that people would love. It's actually funny when a friend of mine told me about this thread. Here I am terrified out of my mind that Tesla was going to figure out who I was, and then everyone is saying I AM Tesla.

I agree wholeheartedly, just as of now have decided not to release the procedure. I said elsewhere but Tesla knows of this and so far has chose to not change it. If it becomes a trend which every owner could easily do I have no doubt they would quickly change their minds. Barring that, there is enough information out there for a determined individual to accomplish this.

Tesla already knows of the procedure.

No, so far I have not seen anything to suggest Tesla knows.

It can be patched by Tesla. They have so far said they won't fix it, but if it becomes a trend I have no doubt they'll disable it. I know it sucks but it's a decision that I have made.

wk57 got direct access to the CID by unsoldering the ROM from a salvaged screen. I honestly wouldn't have the guts to do that.