{"id":13443,"date":"2015-02-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:46","slug":"wtf-it-should-not-be-illegal-to-hack-your-own-cars-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/wtf-it-should-not-be-illegal-to-hack-your-own-cars-computer","title":{"rendered":"WTF! It Should Not Be Illegal to Hack Your Own Car\u2019s Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/kwiens\/\" rel=\"author\">Kyle Wiens<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-660-single-full wp-image-1710939\" src=\"\" alt=\"carhack-ft\" width=\"660\" height=\"461\" \/><br \/> I spent last weekend elbow-deep in engine grease, hands tangled in the steel guts of my wife\u2019s Mazda 3. It\u2019s a good little car, but lately its bellyachings have sent me out to the driveway to tinker under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>I regularly hurl invectives at the internal combustion engine\u2014but the truth is, I live for this kind of stuff. I come away from each bout caked in engine crud and sated by the sound of a purring engine. For me, tinkering and repairing are primal human instincts: part of the drive to explore the materials at hand, to make them better, and to make them whole again.<\/p>\n<p>Cars, especially, have a profound legacy of tinkering. Hobbyists have always modded them, rearranged their guts, and reframed their exteriors. Which is why it\u2019s mind-boggling to me that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/eff-autos-repair-and-modification-exemption-request\">just had to ask permission<\/a> from the Copyright Office for tinkerers to modify and repair their own cars.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/let-us-hack-our-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kyle Wiens \u2014 Wired I spent last weekend elbow-deep in engine grease, hands tangled in the steel guts of my wife\u2019s Mazda 3. It\u2019s a good little car, but lately its bellyachings have sent me out to the driveway to tinker under the hood. I regularly hurl invectives at the internal combustion engine\u2014but the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46626,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions\/46626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}