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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. Why Ubuntu?! by Noxal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would feel safer on the road with CentOS. :P

  2. touch screens in cars, bad idea? by jaymz666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think touch screens are kind of dangerous in a car. I know what my dials and buttons do and can control them by feel while watching the road. touch screens not so much

    1. Re:touch screens in cars, bad idea? by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hate to tell you, but touch screens have been a staple for fighter jets for a few days now,

      Hate to tell you, but fighter pilots are trained professionals who spend years learning how to use their equipment in an efficient way that doesn't interfere with their flying of the plane.

      Also, the obvious complexity of flying a supersonic $10e9 machine designed to blow stuff up notwithstanding, the problem domain of flying a fighter jet does not involve such things as traffic and obstacles, which is why we've had automatic pilots 60 years ago, but we're only barely beginning to have auto-driving cars.

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    2. Re:touch screens in cars, bad idea? by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Bet you fighter jet pilots are 900,000 times more trained than the idiots that I drive to work in the morning with on the highway. The people I see driving can barely keep a car between two painted lines and off of rumble strips.

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    3. Re:touch screens in cars, bad idea? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Insightful

      millions of products are designed by idiots for idiots.

      what exactly are you trying to prove, here?

      any experienced UI designer (for things like cars, planes, boats, etc) knows that TACTILE is important and not something you give away. pressing on glass is the worst you can get in tactile.

      only an idiot designs those for cars.

      yes, I called musk an idiot. in this area, he let idiots design a UI that had no business doing it. he is clearly appealing to other rich idiots who don't really want a good UI design. they mostly buy the car for a fashion statement.

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  3. Should void warranty by Guspaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to jailbreak your phone/tablet/television/refrigerator/etc., power to you. If you do anything that impairs reliability, the worst case is that you can't make a phone call, or your ice-cream melts. You're not having any impact on other people.

    If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road. Everything (including braking) in Tesla cars is tied into the software, and this is not something you should mess around with.

    1. Re:Should void warranty by bmo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road.

      Yeah? So? That's what insurance is for.

      Secondly, you don't seem to have remembered that there are over 100 years of DIY automobile engineering (commonly called hotrodding).

      Are you German or something?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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  4. ... modified version of Ubuntu by snikulin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I assume they made all their sources available to Tesla owners, right?

  5. Do they distribute the source? by fgouget · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a lot of GPL software in Ubuntu, starting with the Linux kernel. Does Tesla distribute the source code to Model S owners that ask?