A young man savvy with computers suddenly found himself digitally inside 25 Teslas belonging to random people from all over the world.
Just to throw in a nice cliché: all technological progress also has a downside. Because the more you can technologically do, the more malicious people can do something with it. You can say a lot about a car with a keyhole, but you can’t get in through a hack or electronic contraption.
Hacker breaks into Teslas
Although it’s easy to say that breaking in is always with bad intentions. Take today’s story. A 19-year-old young man named David Colombo who is handy with computers managed to break into a Tesla. At least, not a Tesla, but more than 25 at a time. The young hacker managed to hack himself into 25 random Teslas worldwide and therefore completely remotely. According to Colombo, the link between the cars is that owners have set something wrong and it is therefore not a safety issue for Tesla in general.
Functions
Colombo says he can now remotely control a number of things in the Tesla. For example, in this Tesla’s Sentry Mode, the hacker could switch off, open and close the doors and, perhaps most importantly, enable remote driving. He can also remotely play music on the YouTube app of the affected Teslas and pinpoint the location of the cars and according to Colombo he could “theoretically” unlock the cars if he is close to them.
To resolve
But Colombo has no bad intentions (at least, since he shares everything on his Twitter account, you would quickly become a burglar as a burglar), so he mainly wants to reach Tesla with this. They can use his data a lot to solve these kinds of problems. Kind of like the contests Tesla always holds where the best hacker breaks himself into Teslas to win a car – a nice prize for a serious security test.
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