Ex-trainee Tesla makes your car hacking is cheap and simple

Posted on 25-03-2015 23:01 by MauritsH – 40 Comments”

The security of your car better control or adjust something in the ECU? Soon it may be reality.

According to Eric Evenchick, a 24-year-old ex-trainee of Tesla with a rather bossy last name, the ‘break’ in the brain of your car pieces simpler, and especially cheaper. He therefore developed CANtact, a system of between 60 and 100 USD, which on the one hand in the OBD2 port of your car and the other side in your PC plug in.

To PC and car with each other can work together, he wrote himself the open-source software that is available for free. The whole idea behind it is that we all be changing our cars to try to tweak and then the findings to communicate with each other.

Why? Evenchick especially want to try to get cars to better protect against break-ins. Think in that context, for example, BMW’s Connected Drive system that what veiligheidsmankementen showed. Of course, the system can also be used to lights on the dashboard to turn on or off or the car automatically brakes.

Thus, we arrive at a sensitive point, because what if there are accidents are going to happen because people themselves to the institutions of their car sitting priegelen? The whole plan of Evenchick sounds to us what is romantic in the ears or in any case not entirely in line with the expected reality. On the other hand, can CANtact system best another great and surprising improvements in yield.