Automotive Ramblings – Surreal Development

Rooting the Cadillac Part 1: Lay of the Land

Disclaimer: All actions performed here were performed in an enclosed safe environment by professionals with 10+ years in automotive pentesting experience. Attempting any of this yourself will likely cause irreparable hardware damage. Don’t try any of this. Anyway, just enjoy the show. Most reading this are probably aware of the relatively cool looking screen seen […]

Maybe you should decline OTAs?

featured image from BMW USA in car advertisements Let’s talk about Why. If you have not read The ABCs of Global B yet I highly recommend starting there. Tuning modern vehicles is tricky as modules will only accept calibrations signed by GM. They usually won’t even allow you to enter a programming mode without a private/public […]

The ABCs of Global B

At Surreal Development we created Gretio for Global B (successfully) with 0 prior knowledge. The only information you can find about Global B on the internet is conjecture but nothing definitive. We want to change that, and so we are pleased to create what might be the first definitive 100% public documentation on Global B. […]

eXtremely Demoralizing

Since the pandemic, remote software engineering work has become common place. Daily stand ups around cubicles are now sit downs with tiny glowing boxes representing people. Agile and scrum have both adapted reasonably well to remote work, and the future of software dev is likely going to be entirely remote as less and less developers […]