Possible to hack MFT!

[lddavis]

Microsoft is using Flash and not Silverlight... hm :)

[gkirk]

Originally Posted by oritpro

who | grep -i brunette | talk; cd ~; wine; talk; touch; unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; gasp; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; sleep

I love Linux!

sudo make me a sandwich

[gkirk]

Flash, huh? Are they g serious? Who the would put flash into a car.

[PratoN]

Originally Posted by thirdj

I've used Flash a while back, and I noticed this back on one of the first sync updates. Im afraid that all I was able to to was open the .swf files in flash professional cs5. I could only play the file in the timeline, no modifications were possible. I think you'd need the source files (.fla) in order to re skin or make modifications. im not 100% sure on this, but Id imagine it would be quite a involved process to decompile and not mess up any of the code that makes MFT work.

If you find out anything let us know I am interested in making some graphic mods

I recall someone else found this a while back, perhaps it was you? At that point I wasn't interested in re-writing MFT. It's kind of a different story now...

[Rownan]

Keep this thread going! I would love to see some custom ROMs for MFT. I want android running on it plz.

Lets get xda-developers.com on the case.

[feta_mgp]

It was known a long time ago that MFT utilized Flash Lite, lol. But this is still kinda cool nonetheless.

Of course it would be much better if we just had a native program winning through WinAuto and not essentially a program running through a program.

But seriously there has to be a way to rewrite this system...

[PratoN]

Originally Posted by Rownan

Lets get xda-developers.com on the case.

I know, right!?

Originally Posted by feta_mgp

But seriously there has to be a way to rewrite this system...

I'll be talking to the computer/electrical engineer at my work today about how I can use what very little programming abilities I have to do this.

Note: It might end up worse than what we currently have. heh...

[Kabigon]

Originally Posted by lddavis

Microsoft is using Flash and not Silverlight... hm :)

What???

1) MFT is based on the MS Auto 4.x platform (Silverlight is integrated into Windows Embedded Automotive 7).
2) The developer of MFT (not Microsoft) chose to use Adobe FlashLite.

[TehMark]

I was under the impression that these files are validated during software upgrades. Replacing files changes their signature and prevents this from working. Am I mistaken?

[oritpro]

Originally Posted by TehMark

I was under the impression that these files are validated during software upgrades. Replacing files changes their signature and prevents this from working. Am I mistaken?

I've dissected the update and found that the files are indeed signed. Someone with the right resources could certainly find a way to circumvent that as well as install a different OS. Then it would just be a matter of getting the system talking to the rest of the car.

The Windows Automotive debugger would definitely come in handy and it only costs around $7000. I work with WinDBG at the kernel level all day long. If someone wants to buy the tools and supply a donor vehicle or hardware I'd be happy to take a crack at it.