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0 pointschairhairair1y ago0 comments

What’s the background here? How can we know they use GPL licensed code? Was there some leak?

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Their infotaiment uses a customized Debian distro. On a Model S you could easily get a shell into it, because they used a freaking SSH with a password-based authentication over Ethernet to connect from the instrument cluster to the computer in the central console.

You could sniff the password with a man-in-the-middle attack, if you knew the host key of the instrument cluster. Here's one from my previous Model S: https://gist.github.com/Cyberax/ad9866ab4306d43957dc480db573...

chrisco2551y ago

This is a gist created 1 hour ago. No proof of the attack vector. What's the point of posting a private key?

Also, so what if they used Debian? Linux is used on everything. Debian has multiple licenses, it also has BSD3 and others to choose from: https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

cyberax1y ago

In case anybody wants it. I can do a more detailed writeup about hacking into my Tesla, but I'm not particularly interested in that. In short, I bought an Tesla instrument cluster on eBay and dumped the NAND chips from it.

They use plenty of GPL software there, including the Linux kernel itself.

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dizhn1y ago

Your post reads like Debian is available with multiple licenses including BSD3 This is not true.

The page you posted is a list of licenses various software in the Debian distribution are released with.

Of course the parent's idea that Tesla using Debian means they have to release the source of anything is incorrect.

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cyberax1y ago

chrisco2551y ago

This is a gist created 1 hour ago. No proof of the attack vector. What's the point of posting a private key?

Also, so what if they used Debian? Linux is used on everything. Debian has multiple licenses, it also has BSD3 and others to choose from: https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

cyberax1y ago

They use plenty of GPL software there, including the Linux kernel itself.

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dizhn1y ago

Your post reads like Debian is available with multiple licenses including BSD3 This is not true.

The page you posted is a list of licenses various software in the Debian distribution are released with.

Of course the parent's idea that Tesla using Debian means they have to release the source of anything is incorrect.

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