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Tearing down a car telematic unit (and finding an accident on Facebook)

blog.quarkslab.com | research | #hardware-security | #osint | #automotive | #forensics | #tcu | #byd
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Summary

Quarkslab tore down a second-hand BYD telematic unit (Snapdragon MDM9628, NAND flash), extracted firmware and stored data, then combined forensics with OSINT.
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