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Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen

Posted by timothy on from the wardriving-in-style dept.

New submitter FikseGTS (3604833) writes "A Tesla Model S owner located a 4 pin connector on the left side of the Tesla Model S dashboard that turns out to be a disguised ethernet networking port. After crafting his owns patch cable to connect with the Tesla's port, a networking connection was established between the Tesla Model S and a laptop computer. The Model S is running a 100 Mbps, full duplex ethernet network and 3 devices were found with assigned IP addresses in the 192.168.90.0 subnet. Some ports and services that were open on the devices were 22 (SSH), 23 (telnet),53 (open domain), 80 (HTTP), 111 (rpcbind), 2049 (NFS), 6000 (X11). Port 80 was serving up a web page with the image or media of the current song being played. The operating system is modified version of Ubuntu using an ext3 filesystem. Using X11 it also appears that someone was able to somewhat run Firefox on both of the Model S screens. Is a jailbroken Tesla Model S on the way?" Some more details on this front would be appreciated, for anyone who has a Tesla they'd like to explore.

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  1. Connector type by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That connector seems to be a M12 standard industrial ethernet connector (IEC 61067–2–101 Amendment 1)

    1. Re:Connector type by Pulzar · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yeah, it is. "Disguised", my ass.

      --
      Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.
  2. Everything is watching you these days... by Lothsahn · · Score: 5, Informative

    The craziest thing in the article that I saw was that Tesla contacted him to tell him he couldn't do that on his car, or it'd void his warranty. Not only is he not allowed to reverse engineer how his car works, they're apparently watching his car at all times.

    It won't be long before people will know what we do, 24/7.

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    -=Lothsahn=-
    1. Re:Everything is watching you these days... by Spoke · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, what's more likely is that they saw his post on the Tesla Motors Club forum detailing what he'd done and then connect the dots between the forum post and ownership data:

      Successful connection on the Model S internal Ethernet network

      Tesla has been known to connect forum users to actual owners and proactively contact the owners via phone when they report problems with their car there.

  3. Update story description **Attention Moderators** by BurningSpiral · · Score: 5, Informative

    The connector is an M12 Industrial Ethernet Connector - as seen at http://www.designworldonline.c... The story description should be updated so that more readers find out that they can connect to their Tesla's on-board computer via a easy to find cable.