Archontes

Thank god.

Your website appears to be about getting the word out. As an electrical engineer working in reverse engineering, I want to know how engineers out in the world can contribute to rectifying the situation. After reading your website, I'm no more equipped to reduce my car's dependency on the privacy-violating software and hardware than before.

This may be an example of a hammer seeing a problem as a nail, but shouldn't we be fixing the problem? What are the fixes? Implementing changes to the law, sure, and your public service announcements help with that, but where you see Right to Repair implemented, you see it weakened and exceptions carved out. Economics aren't going to fix it until a massive reorganization of China make the present design of cars infeasible and we fall back onto dumber models for lack of semiconductors. Even the global chip shortage just stalled production and didn't percolate into redesign.

It seems to me that the fix is to fight with tools. Locate all the micros/cpus, firmware dump them, reverse the software, strip the malicious code out, and recompile.

I have access to equipment and a 5th gen Toyota RAV4, and a willingness to get my hands dirty.