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minus-squareparpol@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·2 days agoYou’d probably have more luck installing a signal jammer in your car. The best you can hope for is a rootkit and some Linux-based OS for cars to be developed so you can take full control.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-221 hours agoi fucking KNEW we would be jailbreaking cars eventually. and you bet they will come up with locked bootloaders.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoAlso, jammers are illegal pretty much everywhere.
minus-squareThrashy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoFWIW there is a cottage industry for OnStar disable/delete mods for GM vehicles. It can be done, usually without breaking too much else of the car’s electronic functionality.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoI’d rather poke the GSM modem with a screwdriver.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoif you can find it, and all it’s backups…
You’d probably have more luck installing a signal jammer in your car.
The best you can hope for is a rootkit and some Linux-based OS for cars to be developed so you can take full control.
i fucking KNEW we would be jailbreaking cars eventually.
and you bet they will come up with locked bootloaders.
Also, jammers are illegal pretty much everywhere.
FWIW there is a cottage industry for OnStar disable/delete mods for GM vehicles. It can be done, usually without breaking too much else of the car’s electronic functionality.
I’d rather poke the GSM modem with a screwdriver.
if you can find it, and all it’s backups…