Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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Soul in reply to @lynx
But then tesla have been hacked.

That's a very broad statement. As far as I'm aware, no Tesla has every been hacked to allow driving functionality.

Two hacks (both patched now) allowed access to the car:
- Key fob vulnerability in Model X - required an ECU from another Tesla Model X, physical access to the car and a key fob. Never worked with any other Tesla model and was patched before the security researcher released the hack to the public.
- Zero click exploit which allowed control of the infotainment (including unlocking of car but not driving). Patched in October last year
Both of these would have been useless if PIN to drive was enabled anyway and both are patched.

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lynx in reply to @Soul

My take on it is that the cars have been hacked. The 'hackers' found the loophole/back door way in and then told tesla.

From memory the ecu key hack never needed to have the key, just be within range of the key for a few minutes. Then there would gain access to the car. Then the hacker had access to the car. While wasn't the Zero click thing was made at a hacking competition and the hacking wasn't that much of an attack, and that this could be done from quite far away something like 400m-500m?

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