Researchers from Technische Universität Berlin jailbroke a Tesla, accessing paid features for free via a voltage glitching technique on its processor.
Jailbreaking is a term for hacking a device to remove its brand-implemented limitations. You may hear of a Jailbreak iPhone that can run Android software or even has free access to the 5g network.
The Tesla hack allows:
The researchers will present their findings at the upcoming Black Hat conference, but the discovery emphasizes the broader industry vulnerabilities in software-defined cars.
We’ve got a jailbroken microwave at the ASOTU writer’s office, and now it only makes mac-n-cheese. No matter what you put it, it comes out as mac-n-cheese. We will not be releasing peer-reviewed research data at this time.