Envchem
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It triggers quite fast. When I park on the drive my wife's car is already there. By the time I walk to take the charging cable from the wall (about 4 meters) the car locks. Really annoying 
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I'm smelling bull on this story
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Here's a question for you.
There's much scepticism on this thread about whether or not the car was properly locked. Yet it occurred to me this morning that the M3 door lock isn't a deadlock. You can - in theory - open a M3 door by hooking a straightened coat hanger under the manual opener handle and pulling it up, from the outside, by pushing the wire between the window glass and rubber. I doubt it would take an experienced thief more than a few seconds.
Not that I'm willing to test this!
There's much scepticism on this thread about whether or not the car was properly locked. Yet it occurred to me this morning that the M3 door lock isn't a deadlock. You can - in theory - open a M3 door by hooking a straightened coat hanger under the manual opener handle and pulling it up, from the outside, by pushing the wire between the window glass and rubber. I doubt it would take an experienced thief more than a few seconds.
Not that I'm willing to test this!
Envchem
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In this case since the car will be locked the moment you open the door the alarm should get going.
Agreed. And it's damned noisy, too - according to daughter #2 who got traumatised when I left her in the car while I went to get a burger. Alarm went off with her inside it (she's 19 and was listening to music on her phone).
I turn off the walk-away door lock when I wash my car as otherwise it will lock on me simply because I'm around the back of the car. Folds in those wing mirrors, means it has to unlock if I open the doors and messes up my cleaning regime. So yeah, it's definitely a close range thing.
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Envchem
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A good trick for washing that I learned thanks to Mr H is to leave the phone inside the house and unlock the car with the card. It then stays unlocked, mirrors unfolded and I can happily wash it with no trouble.
Only problem is that if I press the charging port while moving around the sponge it pops open Oh well
Only problem is that if I press the charging port while moving around the sponge it pops open
Oh well
It's either totally made up, or he lost a keycard, or his daughter didn't want him to know she was sticking cocaine up her nose.
Considering there's been no followup on his twitter for days (and really if this was true wouldn't you be expending a lot of energy finding out what happened?) I'm going with the first option.
Considering there's been no followup on his twitter for days (and really if this was true wouldn't you be expending a lot of energy finding out what happened?) I'm going with the first option.
Jason71
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isn't there a car wash mode for that stuff now?A good trick for washing that I learned thanks to Mr H is to leave the phone inside the house and unlock the car with the card. It then stays unlocked, mirrors unfolded and I can happily wash it with no trouble.
Only problem is that if I press the charging port while moving around the sponge it pops open
Envchem
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Envchem
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That is recovery mode and allows it to be rolled to the side of the road or towed up on to a flat bed recovery vehicle
They're could be a twist to the story.
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Hacker, 19, takes control of more than 20 Teslas through software flaw
David Colombo, 19, shared the warning on Twitter, saying the flaw was found in a third-party software that stores the Tesla owner's sensitive information. Tesla is looking into the matter.
Envchem
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Well still i am not convinced that a french speaking homeless man would hack a tesla to watch Netflix and do drugs.
The actual vulnerability story has some truth.
One example here:
Tesla expired a fair few authentication tokens for some using third party apps/services.
It appears to be tokens generated using a v2 API version revoked, because that's the only easy and quick clue Tesla have that someone may have been hosting a vulnerable application. But also and more importantly, it's really a vulnerability in how some were self hosting the 3rd party service
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It does always highlight that security is end to end, who and what do you trust with access.
However at the time of the original story behind this thread, this vulnerability wasn't disclosed anyway. Not that it was related anyway.
One example here:
Tesla expired a fair few authentication tokens for some using third party apps/services.
It appears to be tokens generated using a v2 API version revoked, because that's the only easy and quick clue Tesla have that someone may have been hosting a vulnerable application. But also and more importantly, it's really a vulnerability in how some were self hosting the 3rd party service
Tesla Hack Faces Questioning from Fact Checker After Teen Claims Vulnerabilities on EVs
Is the Tesla Hack kid legit? This fact checker's thread is also convincing.
www.google.com
It does always highlight that security is end to end, who and what do you trust with access.
However at the time of the original story behind this thread, this vulnerability wasn't disclosed anyway. Not that it was related anyway.
Regarding washing the car, just leave your phone on the driver's seat. I found it prevents the car from locking.
Regarding 3rd party apps and vulnerabilities, I've always suspected the app makers of being sloppy, so when I wanted to access better data on my car (for fun, I have no real reason to do it as I'm not a data scientist) I put TeslaMate on a rPI and ran it on my local net with no external access. Strictly speaking it is less secure than not running it at all, but it's sitting behind a firewall on a reasonably well maintained (that is, "updated") router / network, so I'm as safe as I can be.
Regarding 3rd party apps and vulnerabilities, I've always suspected the app makers of being sloppy, so when I wanted to access better data on my car (for fun, I have no real reason to do it as I'm not a data scientist) I put TeslaMate on a rPI and ran it on my local net with no external access. Strictly speaking it is less secure than not running it at all, but it's sitting behind a firewall on a reasonably well maintained (that is, "updated") router / network, so I'm as safe as I can be.
Ah, well that would explain why my API scripts suddenly stopped working at exactly 06:30 UTC yesterday. They all suddenly started returning no data.
Gotta create a new access token then? I guess refreshing an existing access token using the refresh token won't work?
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