Like what? I've tried to do CAN stuff with cars before, and outside of a few standard measurements it's almost impossible to find any documentation on what commands do what.
Open source hardware for communicating on CAN buses, which are the main network used in today's automotive systems. Hardware has been around for about a year, but I'm currently working on new open source software for visualizing and communicating on CAN buses. Hoping to demystify automotive electronics and make them more accessible!
If this works, it seems pretty strange to build their own devices with it. With a patent on the methods they could make a fortune licensing the technology to Si companies. They would reach the market much quicker too.
However, having worked on BMS systems for lithium batteries this sounds very fishy. Maybe they've hit on something spectacular, but it seriously looks like snake oil based on the info they've provided thus far.
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It appears that they plan to do EMV in the future. This is rather scary, since you're trusting their hardware, and probably your phone, with the private key in your chip card.
As far as I know, EMV has no way for the user (or bank's employees, for that matter) to get that private key out of the chip card; if it was possible then the whole concept would be pretty much useless and allow easy cloning of those cards just like the old magstripes.
The system doesn't allow to "trust other hardware", the card itself has to sign every transaction.
While copying magstripes is already easy, no merchant will accept a stock magstripe card for a credit transaction, because it's clearly fraudulent.
If merchants will accept coin, it creates trust for this devices, and lookalikes. I think it would be much easier to create Coins, or Coin clones with stolen credit card data. This is rather concerning.
On another note, I really want one of these to tear apart and mess with. The hardware is pretty slick.
I suppose our experiences differ. I've found the majority of classes to reward most the points on exams that require knowing how to do a specific subset of problems from the course.
