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> It's pretty silly to suggest that a state-level adversary needs the help of the person who stumbled across the baked-in credentials in an obfuscated Python binary to accomplish a CNE task.

I didn't mean they'd want your help. I meant you might end up on some hacker watchlist. You'll get extra attention and scrutiny from government agencies which wouldn't have much upside IMO. Maybe at airports you'll be randomly selected more often so security agencies can look at your devices and try to clone them.

Would you really feel 100% comfortable going to China after being in the news as the person that could have controlled the entire Tesla fleet? I think there are hard to measure social costs for gaining that kind of notoriety and current bug bounty programs aren't properly compensating for them.




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