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Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks with reporter behind the wheel. New Forbs article gives credence to Michael Hastings Boston Breaks theory
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[quote:NSF001:MV8yMzAyMTY5XzM5MjAzMDg1XzNGMDU1OTc5] [quote:Anonymous Coward 43203674:MV8yMzAyMTY5XzM5MjAyOTU4XzQzNzcwNzYz] So now people will think twice about buying certain cars and sales will fall, adding to a stagnating economy. There muat also be a way to hack the central locking system in cars as well, which is why some car locks are not in the lock postition when left overnight, giving baddies the time to play with the breaks and accelarator pedals manually to cause accidents and deaths. [/quote] This touches on another issue that could get a whole thread to itself. So much on a modern car is computer driven and all routed through the ECU. Loads of cars now have inbuilt wireless or satellite devices now too so if the wireless hack mentioned in the New Scientist article turns out soundit would open up a world of options. [/quote]
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Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop–or even slow down–produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV’s chassis. The more I pound the pedal, the louder the groan gets–along with the delighted cackling of the two hackers sitting behind me in the backseat.
Luckily, all of this is happening at less than 5mph. So the Escape merely plows into a stand of 6-foot-high weeds growing in the abandoned parking lot of a South Bend, Ind. strip mall that Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have chosen as the testing grounds for the day’s experiments, a few of which are shown in the video below. (When Miller discovered the brake-disabling trick, he wasn’t so lucky: The soccer-mom mobile barreled through his garage, crushing his lawn mower and inflicting $150 worth of damage to the rear wall.)
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