You bought a android phone. Google forces Samsung to put their Google crap on it and activate/ configure it a certain way before they certify the device firmware for Google play store download/access.

If you don't want it the only option is a non android os such as oxygen.

Oxygen is still Android, though..? Your next concern should be what the CCP might be forcing them to add in eventually.

They give customers a discount for reused boosters and their production rate is kinda stable thanks to falcon heavy and customers like the federal government asking for brand new rockets for some missions.

His pay package does not come into effect until Tesla network triples in a few years. Supposedly he doesn't claim the salary checks / have a salary at Tesla and his regular stuff seems to be mostly margin out to pay for stuff assume his income comes from SpaceX .

What is the chinese pin theory? Is this the name being used for the supposedly embedded on the PCB layers chip? Or the one that attaches on unpopulated pins/pads near the BMC memory area?

This saga is fascinating I really have no doubt of the hardware existing. Thought the original picture from the article and description made it hard for me to imagine the connectivity.

is it connected to the SPI of the BMC flash/OS storage? Why would software integrity checks like making sure the image is signed and not tampered wouldn't capture it? (Answer to this one sounds easy bad security practices regarding firmware process)

This article talks about something elsewhere entirely than the original one, and unrelated to the BMC.

Yes I read it. seems they added another device to the network/ethernet interface which they detected sending network packets.

Curious how this one affected the server or did compare to the original article.

This one seems more benign considering it won't be able to mess around like the BMC has access to things like secure boot and other system busses like the PCI.

Wasn't this fixed with the latest release which provides a pin to drive option for the owner to enable. This works as a two factor for driving since you must have the fob(or the signal) and the pin

It's not mandatory to buy the self driving car. They want it on the car regardless of the customer buys it or not. They have other uses for the hardware.

I don't think his talking about the physical button and the model 3 one uses a custom made one with a different layout. Their old one at one point was a Mercedes one they later switches to another design don't remember from which OEM.

Google has a simulation for their cars that does this. Nvidia has a hw suit for this purpose too and for testing autopilot hardware by feeding it data from another rack/server

No. Tesla does not use Nvidia software libraries afaik. They do license the socs and gpus on a board designed by tesla. Based on the drive px1 reference design. Being changed in 6-8 months to a custom made asic made specifically for self driving by Tesla.