![]() From there he finds an official Subaru update, from which he can slowly peel away the layers and deduce the security mechanism. He starts with a serial port, then an SSH prompt for a root password, and a bit of searching to find it was made by Harman and that it runs the closed-source realtime OS QNX. ![]() His account of jailbreaking it is a lengthy essay and a fascinating read for anyone. ![]() has a Subaru, a car that has an all-in-one entertainment system head unit that is typical of what you’d find across a host of manufacturers. As you might expect these systems attract the curiosity of security researchers, and through their work we gain an insight into their operation. What has changed in the cabin lies mostly beneath the dash, where enough computing power to launch several Moon shots takes care of everything from air-conditioning to entertainment. A modern car still drives in the same way as the one you would have bought thirty years ago, it still has a steering wheel and all the other controls.
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