Re:Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit
by ygra on Saturday January 09, 2016 @09:06AM
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> he was quick to throw accusations around
To be fair:
a) English isn't his native language and both "schummeln" and "betrügen" would be "cheating" in English, though one with much less negative connotation
b) in the talk it sounded more like he was saying that the ECU (or other embedded computers) do a lot of filtering and processing already, even in places where you'd expect to have a straight path from the sensor to the reading (e.g. the idle rpm). When listening to the talk it didn't sound to me as he was implying that all of that processing was on the same level as the emissions stuff; just that there's a lot going on that most people don't even realise.
To be fair:
a) English isn't his native language and both "schummeln" and "betrügen" would be "cheating" in English, though one with much less negative connotation
b) in the talk it sounded more like he was saying that the ECU (or other embedded computers) do a lot of filtering and processing already, even in places where you'd expect to have a straight path from the sensor to the reading (e.g. the idle rpm). When listening to the talk it didn't sound to me as he was implying that all of that processing was on the same level as the emissions stuff; just that there's a lot going on that most people don't even realise.