3.6 MEGAJOULES OF DANGEROUSLY SKIP PERMISSIONS: CAN Reverse Engineering in the Real World
Tristan Steele
[ Abstract ]
Letting an LLM agent loose on a live CAN bus, using a consumer portable power station as the target. The harness, permission gates, instrumentation and physical isolation it took before an agent could safely touch real hardware.
AI agents live a solitary life, spending most of their time stuck in (at best) a virtual reality. This talk follows the journey of letting them out into the real world to perform CAN bus reverse engineering. Recent LLMs have crossed the line from CAN an LLM perform this, into HOW can an LLM carry this out - and this talk explores what that shift looks like using hardware, not software. Using a consumer portable power station as a target, I'll walk through the harness, permission gates, instrumentation, feedback loops, and safety controls needed before an agent can interact with a live embedded system.
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