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Subject 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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Just keeps getting better

Verizon has a remote vehicle diagnostic tool that allows "ultimate control of your car through a smartphone"

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/04/03/delphi-vehicle-diagnostics-tool-from-verizon-gives-you-ultimate-control-of-your-car-through-a-smartphone-and-tablet/
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Can't a person "unhook" any thing like that?
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Yes, it seems they can just remove the dongle.

But, what if the driver doesn't know it is there? BMW has USB port, but it is in the back of the center console and you would have to lift up the lid first.

More importantly, if someone wanted to "hack a car" to cause them to crash, I am sure you could connect it some place where the driver wasn't aware it was there.

What is worse, Verizon has to comply with the NSA. Now that will include your car. All it is basically is a 4G wireless connector, making your car connected to cell towers. They can make your phone a device they can listen to, don't think that they won't turn your car into the same thing.

You all have seen the street lights that have microphones now, right?
If you have an Xbox Kinnect, then you home is not private, just look at the Microsoft patent if you doubt it.

There are making it, so you can't be anywhere that they can't listen to you.
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Original Message 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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