I see what you mean. This thing is sneaky.
Assuming Ford pays based on usage, data costs next to nothing, it's a revenue stream for the cellular companies. Getting the infrastructure up and running is where the costs are. Data fees may not be structured for Ford in the same way that they are for consumers, especially for an anticipated use like this.
Which is why he didn't want to 'share' this in the first place. He could have at least watched YouTube while he charged!
Eh, I’m glad he shared it even though it will be closed, seems like a big security risk, this probably hasn’t been checked on how it would interact with other systems
For good measure I tried a ethernet dongle plugged into a USB port, nothing. lol. I know, long shot. Honestly I do have a LimeSDR I could setup to masquerade as a ATT enodeb and capture the cellular traffic. But that's a royal pain and will require me taking a day off just to set everything up. I think I'm likely to leave it as it is for now.
The car seems to not use your DHCP DNS settings and probably is using Ford's DNS. I don't see any activity in my DNS from the car at all. But do see the traffic going through my router with packet inspection.
Encrypted DNS. With a trusted cert. It's almost like Ford learned their lesson's previously.
Likely a radio crash. Pretty common but indicates "something" crashed.
Alright, it did this a couple months ago but came back a few days later so, def seems like software, hopefully comes back again.
I'm glad he released it to the public. Who knows how many people it might had been disclosed too in discords or other forums that are not as populated. They are having enough issues without people streaming gigabytes of cat videos on their service cellular connection... Really though, people doing this can't be helping with the OTA situation.. If it was using the car's AT&T hotspot then it would be a different story.
