A radio station in Seattle, KUOW 94.9, crashed and permanently bricked the entertainment system in Mazda cars after the station broadcasted images over the air that lacked a filename extension. https://t.co/8npKfgYTXT— Chad Loder (@chadloder) February 9, 2022
Most proprietary things aren't particularly hard to reverse engineering if you have the time and equipment. The basic equipment you would need costs tens of thousands of dollars though. Like, all added up together, not individually. Microscopes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, random things from digikey you would order as you figure out you will need them, basic workshop stuff, probes, it all adds up.
Most proprietary things aren't particularly hard to reverse engineering if you have the time and equipment. The basic equipment you would need costs tens of thousands of dollars though. Like, all added up together, not individually. Microscopes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, random things from digikey you would order as you figure out you will need them, basic workshop stuff, probes, it all adds up.