Hacker successfully installed Linux on Tesla Model S

Automobiles become increasingly sophisticated and are no longer being "running computers." By computer, you can hack, so Tesla's "Model STo the Linux distributionGentooThe situation of installing is being made public by hackers.

Su - tesla: Gentoo Tesla - T2 Edition
http://www.su-tesla.space/2016/04/gentoo-tesla-t2-edition.html

You can check how to install and operate Linux on Model S in the following movie.

Gentoo on my Tesla - YouTube


It seems that movies are playing on liquid crystal display.


When the camera zoomed out, the liquid crystal display was a Tesla Model S genuine 17 inch monitor.


You can lower and raise the volume with the button of the genuine handle.


A keyboard on the knee. Pressing the "Space" key ... ...


The movie is stopped.


At the end only for a moment came. It seems that this movie playback demonstration was not using the model S genuine media player function but it was playing the movie by installing the Linux distribution Gentoo on the model S system.


Su - tesla installed Linux on Tesla OS of Model S.Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)YaX.OrgHe told me that he installed Gentoo on Model S for two weeks while fighting with NVIDIA's Tegra driver. Suddenly su - tesla says that he gathered information for about two months after he decided to hack Model S, saying "I installed Gentoo to speed up Model S because it is speed crazy."

The first task is to remove the cover on the right side of the driver's seat. A white connector appeared from inside. It is said that this white connector is a LAN cable with Tesla's unique connector shape.


Open the cover under the handle ......


It is like this when removing the air conditioner cover.


It seems that such a display is installed in the instrument panel.


Remove the display ......


Factory mode via IC cable.


Then changed to developer mode.


Once you have root authority, you are ready to install Linux.


The latest car like Model S has a function to connect to the Internet, and it is unlikely that it will be subject to hacking by hackers who are curious in the future.

By the way, according to the survey of the security countermeasure Lookout, the security of Model S has a very elaborately designed security structure, and it is said that other automakers should also model model.

Tesla Model S Hacking: Discovery and Lessons Learned There | LOOKOUT Blog
https://blog.lookout.com/jp/2015/08/25/hacking-a-tesla/