The downside with offering an application programming interface to interact with a car is that someone else's security problem might become your own.
A young hacker and IT security researcher found a way to remotely interact with more than 25 electric vehicles in 13 countries.
The flaw was not a vulnerability in the infrastructure of the company. It's the owner's fault. He claimed to be able to start a car's keyless driving by disabling a car's remote camera system. He could determine the exact location of the car.
At least we don't have to worry about an army of remote-controlled EVs doing a Fate of the Furious reenactment because Colombo said he couldn't interact with any of the steering, throttle, or brakes.
The issue was reported to the security team of the company.
A third-party app called TezLab reported early on Wednesday morning that it saw the "simultaneous expiry of several thousandTeslaAuthenticationTokens fromTesla's side." TezLab's app can use theTesla APIs to do things like log in to the car and enable or disabling the anti-theft camera system, and so on.
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