Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps

Motherboard ^ | 24 April 2019 | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |

[Celtic Conservative]

Niiiice!

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[duckman]

“Yep, next car is gonna be a 1966 chevy C10 pickup.”

You got that right. First of all new cars have more ‘things’ that I don’t need and have to pay a higher price for. Second, always a possibility of intrusion of some sort like appears in the thread. Last car I purchase was a 2003 (new) Toyota Matrix after that, probably earlier years.

[Chickensoup]

Of course, even the SUV’s that were plentiful back then have disappeared. I think a lot of stuff got destroyed by Cash For Clunkers. And that’s a shame.

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that was the plan... to remove them from the US. To move people into more controlled and trackable vehicles.

[wally_bert]

Another reason why I will get my K5 Blazer back in running condition someday.

[wally_bert]

Swap for an HEI or some other aftermarket electronic ignition.

I did that for my 65 Willys jeep and what a difference it made.

[Celtic Conservative]

They still make small block crate engines. Go for it.

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[wally_bert]

I figured that was going to eventually happen.

My Willys jeep goes for major surgery first, then CJ7 reassembly, and finally K5. I will pick at all of them in the meantime, doing what I can.

[yldstrk]

Stalker spouses are using onstar to track their partners. It’s creepy.

[Excellence]

Would a lead replacement be something like Chevron’s Techron?

[SaveFerris]

Well, at one time, people would have accused you of being part of the tinfoil nut-job conspiracy ping list.

I’m sure that was a side benefit of boosting the dying GM.

[no-s]

I like the old cars because I can work on them without needing a computer science degree.

actually I like to joke that working with modern car computers requires a taste for mystery pasta, because apparently all the manufacturers prefer to deploy obfuscated spaghetti code.

[SaveFerris]

[obfuscated spaghetti code]

Hey now, don’t remind of a bad experience just a few years ago....(worst I have ever seen)

[moovova]

We can start our new F150 with our cellphone...from anywhere I think (as long as there’s cell service).

Scares heck outta me.

[Celtic Conservative]

Nope, it’s a specialty oroduct. Techron would be better than nothing as it adds lubricity into the gas. But without a lead replacement you’re still running the risk of eroding your valve seats. Unless you’ve had the motor rebuilt with stellite valve seats.

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[no-s]

Hey now, don’t remind of a bad experience just a few years ago....(worst I have ever seen)

The flip side is modern CAN bus is robust enough to prefer for all sorts of extreme embedded computing, e.g. robotics, amateur rocketry, R/C aircraft (e.g. drones), and space probes (see ESA Smart-1 for the latter).

But there are still plenty of perverse implementations.

[Chickensoup]

Well, at one time, people would have accused you of being part of the tinfoil nut-job conspiracy ping list.

I’m sure that was a side benefit of boosting the dying GM.

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I am saying a lot of things that I would have found unbelievably nutty 5 or 10 years ago.

[Wuli]

Wait until a single hacker downloads a virus via wifi to dozens of wifi connected “self driving” cars all on the same freeway, at the same time with the virus not just taking control but not allowing the person in the car to shut anything off.

ROFWL

It it WILL happen.

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[SaveFerris]

I understand.