A new cottage industry is born...disabling the disabler!
” new cottage industry is born...disabling the disabler!”
Don’t get caught doing it or having it on your vehicle. Just like disabling EPA emissions controls is a federal level felony with years in prison,loss of firearms and loss of voting rights. Take it to the bank disabling the black box will be as big or larger of a felony. It would be easy to check even while in motion send a command to the network for the ECU to report back its status via the coms channel and that no defeat device exists in the signal path also easy to do with CANBUS inside the car. It won’t be a simple relay it will be a coded CANBUS signal directly to the ECU and back to the black box. That two way coms will 100% be encrypted with no public key. Even putting a spoof unit between the ECU and the black box won’t work then since the spoof unit won’t have the proper response key to the request of the black box only the ECU will have that response key. Anything between the ECU and black box will trigger a tamper alarm and likely a automatic upload to the 4G network of the tamper attempt with VIN info ,date time ect. Jamming the 4G won’t work as it is active signals all the time 24/7 since the black box would immediately send a message once the jamming stopped. Jamming 4/5G is again a federal level felony with years in prison and detectable from hundreds if not thousands of feet away. It would trigger the FCC network of sniffers for sure. Plus it would jam your smartphones and everyone around you 24/7’ the black box would also have a time to live more if it doesn’t hear from the network in X number of hours it bricks the vehicle or more likely goes into limp mode and kicks a fault code that only the dealership can reset. Use blockchain to secure the translational coms from the black box, ecu and network they are effectively without national technical means unbreakable. So no don’t expect to just have joe six pack under the shade tree disable a black box , even computer science PhD would struggle to defeat a modern encrypted security chain. The other way would be to require the ecu to check in every X days with the black box using blockchain to check for anything in the coms path and if it doesn’t then limp mode. So two way security from the ECU outwards and from the network inwards anything in that path gets flagged.