Felix Domke

Felix has been reverse-engineering embedded systems for a long time. He stumbled across satellite TV receivers, gaming consoles and more recently automotive vehicle electronics and consumer drones.

Since 2015, starting from a curious view at his own "cheating" Diesel car, he is involved in reverse-engineering and documenting various defeat devices that have been used in Diesel cars.

Events with this speaker

Day 3

21:45

60m

10 years of Dieselgate

Other speakers of this event:

Karsten Burger

Let's have a (hopefully) final look at Diesel emission cheating. This technical talk summarizes what I learned by reverse-engineering dozens of engine ECU software, how I found and characterized "interesting logic" which, more often than not, ended up being a court-approved "defeat device". What started as a "curious investigation" in 2015 to obtain a ground truth to widespread media reports of "VW being caught for cheating" ended up as a full-blown journey through the then-current state of the Diesel car industry. In this talk, I'll walk through the different implementation of defeat devices, their impact on emissions.