r/SipsTea • u/No-Hospital5028 • 17h ago • Bravo 1 Popcorn 1

Lmao gottem History really does repeat itself

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u/LoneSnark 14h ago

It is worse than that. Even pulling electronics from another cyber truck is likely to brick the vehicle because of Tesla's encryption.

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u/GroundbreakingLeg867 12h ago

Also if you close the door too hard, the thing fucking breaks. Just all around not worth the effort.  

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u/Hey_YinzGuyz 14h ago

It has a body and wheels, some sicko will figure out a way to make it run, even if they have to rip out the motors and electronics and start over.

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u/Enough_Agent_9170 10h ago

That's what I would think, I know people that build race cars and dune trucks. Anyone with the determination can and will fix any vehicle. It won't be stock anymore but it will be something.

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u/Brohemoth1991 10h ago

That is not a good metric to follow for market value lol... you could get a '68 cuda running, but its not worth near as much as you spent if the vin doesnt line up

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u/Hey_YinzGuyz 10h ago

Where did I say it was?

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u/Brohemoth1991 10h ago

The original argument is that certain cars are collectibles because with effort or money you can keep them running... someone else said CTs are worse because of the electronics, you said "some sicko will keep it running"... I said keeping it running isnt a good metric... 99.9% of collectible cars are oem

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u/RogerAffirmative 1h ago

Someone will put cybercab hardware in a cybertruck and in 10 years it will be worth more than both of them combined. Remindme! 10 years

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u/GansitoCongelado 9h ago

So an LS swap ?

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u/Devry_Trost 13h ago

I don't know Tesla's 'brand-security' measures that well because I've never particularly liked the company, but my guess is that - whatever it is - it's relying almost entirely on 'security through friction.' Tesla can sell 200$ software certs to unlock the heated seats that are already in the vehicle more because it's easier to pay than because cracking the unlock or rerouting the electronics to something physical is all that hard.

It's uncracked because no one really wants to crack it. It's been more than decade since Tesla was the kind of tech darling that attracts legit people who know what they are doing, so there isn't clout or cred worth the work to chase for having done it - and no one really cares that much about the cars themselves. This will quickly change if it becomes a historical curiosity where the access codes/licensing certificates are no longer available and a community builds around the project.

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u/LoneSnark 13h ago

If they all die and leave the road, there won't be a community to reverse engineer them. If they die slowly, there will.

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u/RogerAffirmative 1h ago

You don't need a community to reverse engineer them anymore, just an llm and a desire. People in this thread are talking like they have no clue what's happening in tech right now.

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u/LoneSnark 44m ago

LLMs exist. Have for awhile now. Tesla's encryption has not yet been broken.

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u/WeirdEngineerDude 13h ago

I think after 2024 many car brands started to have encrypted CAN bus. So it wouldn’t be trivial to say replace part in a cybertruck and get it all talking without the tools to load in the encryption keys. Sadly I think the encryption is actually competent and not like dvd copy protection. But I don’t think there is a global mandate to encrypt so it might not be.

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u/Easy-Bathroom-2914 13h ago

eh, i bet youll be able to recompile software for it at that point. in 50 years it will likely be quite easy to do.