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by mschuster91 4452 days ago
Get ssh access to the box connected to the CAN bus and boom, you have access.

There must be at least one of those connected because Tesla is able to remote-unlock your vehicle.

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There are usually discrete CAN bus firewalls that sit between controllers that are explicitly programmable, and the bus. They might be ASICs, microcontrollers or FPGAs, but there's no way into the mfrom the network. The only attack vector onto the bus is to stab the car with a sharp knife until you have the PCB in your hands, at which point you have owned the car anyways.