On: Subaru, Kia shut off some car features rather than adhere to 'right to repair'

[ezfe]

My 2020 Crosstrek is connected to the internet, but it only affects the infotainment system and remote start/stop/monitoring.

The rest of the car is completely offline, that includes Eyesight.

[dogman144 → ezfe]

Fwiw there's enough intermingling between how the head unit (infotainment) operates wrt to the CAN bus that your car is essentially online.

https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/mast...

[ezfe → dogman144]

Interesting page, and while what I said may be incorrect (it's not air-gapped or anything) - my intent was to say:

>The online subscription and cellular service connectivity is not directly interacting with the eyesight safety system.

The original article seemed to conflate them.

[logbiscuitswave → dogman144]

That was a great read. Thanks for posting. I’ve been dabbling in reverse engineering embedded devices in my spare time. I find these kind of detailed reports on how someone solved a reverse engineering challenge to be fascinating.

[magikaram → dogman144]

Not parent, but thank you for sharing this, as is quite the read.

[dogman144 → magikaram]

Sure thing! Cool read. It links into a very stellar 90 page report that kicked off much of the hacking cars research

[vaxman → ezfe]

How do you know it "is completely offline, that includes Eyesight." I believe this is false. Also, the "repair issue" is concerned with (service bay) RF access to the proprietary sensors and memory attached to the vehicle's computer systems --not necessarily Internet connectivity to them.

[ezfe → vaxman]

Let me rephrase, I meant that those systems, while they may be exposed to the online systems, are not part of the subscription packages in any way - and don't use the internet to operate.