Looks like the website is having some trouble with all the HN traffic. Rehosted the ebook downloads on GDrive to save him some traffic. I'll remove them when the post leaves the HN front page.<p>Just FYI, this book literally teaches you how to identify security vulnerabilities in modern cars and exploit them.<p>You can purchase it from Amazon here[0], or download the book for free in EPUB[1] or PDF[2].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/2014-Hackers-Manual-Craig-Smith/dp/0990490106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405445024&sr=8-1&keywords=2014+car+hacker%27s+manual" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/2014-Hackers-Manual-Craig-Smith/dp/099...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzxo-UKxFmN-bDlNSi1IT1JLdHM/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzxo-UKxFmN-bDlNSi1IT1JLdHM...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzxo-UKxFmN-WFVjcEVVX3B5azg/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzxo-UKxFmN-WFVjcEVVX3B5azg...</a>
This is especially heinous given that car manufacturers are trying to keep you from repairing your own car, claiming that the computer systems are copyrighted.<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8490359/general-motors-eff-copyright-fight-dmca" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8490359/general-motors-eff...</a>
I worked for one of those car manufacturers for the telematics unit like putting specific frames on the CAN bus to make the car do remote operations like start/stop engine and also read values from ECUs for DTC codes. We used to teraterm into the unit with a serial cable & a trivial password. The security measure we had during that time was that "we do not give cables to customers so that they cant teraterm into the telematics unit. It might have changed now with the recent CAN Bus hacks.
Site overwhelmed. Archive links to the site, pdf and epub from 2015:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150628210322/http://opengarages.org/handbook/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20150628210322/http://opengarage...</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525100844/http://opengarages.org/handbook/2014_car_hackers_handbook_compressed.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20150525100844/http://opengarage...</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150628210322/http://opengarages.org/handbook/2014_car_hackers_handbook.epub" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20150628210322/http://opengarage...</a>
Some very interesting stuff in there... that's bound to make some manufacturers very unhappy. I remember a couple years ago when some Tesla forum geeks got access to the Linux system running the infotainment dashboard of the model ... and got a nice (seriously) message from Tesla engineers to the amount of "good job... but please stop there".<p>Many folks have mentioned how the Tesla Model S at least is more of a supercomputing cluster on wheels than a car with some ECUs. I don't know how armored their CAN bus(es) are, but I'm sure the "Attacking ECUs and other embedded systems" is giving some safety engineers white hair.<p>(of course, everything I've said about Tesla is just about equally applicable to other high-end vehicles. It's just that Tesla are a bit more connected to the traditional software world)
Looks awesome, hope this will be updated for V2X (Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure) / DSRC / Wave<p>I would have bought the Kindle e-book for sure - Does Amazon allow pay-what-you-want?
On the enduser side, this a big leap towards maintenance transparency: <a href="https://www.automatic.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.automatic.com</a> + being tethered to YourMechanic is brilliant.