Last edited by Yortt; 04-22-2015 at 06:19 PM.
Tune with actual data not simulated data!.....Applied Road/track Tuning
Old news but on a more technical level is that manufactures were/are trying to remove the ability to read ecu's but keep getting caught out by all sorts of red tape regarding them trying to "monopoly" the market and of course they would be
It will only be a matter of time before basic SAE will be scrapped and then further lock ecu ability to read/rite
But then wheneva a smart person comes along to lock something and remove all "ability" someone just as smart cracks it and on sells the ability
Mechanically the arguements are probably worthy in regards to giving people "easy" access to turn a bolt or remove a filter
Bring on one way bolts and single use pins ? Who knows hey
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Even if they can successfully argue that the DMCA applies to your PCM's software, there are plenty of competing interests that can and will tie this up. Everyone from Snap-On to SEMA will fight this since it means plenty of dollars out of their hands.
As long as they keep driver aids such as GM's SuperCruise seperate from the PCM, I think our hobby will be safe, as long as people don't start modifying driver demand tables badly and start shoving customers into a ditch.
I'm surprised they haven't done this already to the ECUs, however even if they encrypt the code they will have to store the decryption key somewhere. They could however make it extremely difficult to crack eg obfuscate the process by changing from OBD2 to a propitiatory format, run custom memory chips that can only be flashes X times etc, there will always be a way around it, it just might cost 10x as much and take 10x as long to do.