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Hackers hijack software in a car and remotely control the steering, brakes and horn using a laptop
Daily Mail ^ | 25 Jul 2013 | VICTORIA WOOLLASTON

Posted on 07/25/2013 1:42:55 PM PDT by mandaladon

Forget hacking accounts, computers or mobile devices - security engineers from Indiana have managed to hack the software inside the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape. Using a laptop wirelessly connected to the car's electronics, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were able to remotely control the brakes, the accelerate, change the speedometer, switch the headlights on and off, tighten the seatbelts and even blast the horn. The project was funded by a grant from the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to highlight the security risks affecting modern-day cars. Miller, a security engineer at Twitter, and Valasek, Director of Security Intelligence at IOActive, are due to officially announce their findings at the Def Con 21 conference in Vegas the weekend of the 1-3 Augus

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carhacker; computers; google; michaelhastings; remotecontrol; vehiclehacker
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To: MichaelCorleone; mandaladon
Mmmm....that means that it IS possible to cause someone’s car to ram a tree at 100 mph in the middle of the night.

Michael Hastings...

101 posted on 07/25/2013 11:21:05 PM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: mandaladon

Watch these two disappear soon, considering what they know.


102 posted on 07/26/2013 12:02:25 AM PDT by wastedyears (One nation, under wub. Saints Row IV)
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To: upchuck

so I probably should get a car NOW to avoid the black boxes, but of course the govt could always require one later....


103 posted on 07/26/2013 12:03:32 AM PDT by cherry
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To: mandaladon

Michael Hastings was no doubt murdered by government agents using this type of technology.


104 posted on 07/26/2013 12:10:26 AM PDT by Prole
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To: Amendment10

No.


105 posted on 07/26/2013 12:39:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MHGinTN

One problem with your scenario.

Explosive residue would be present on the pieces of the car.

Investigators “in on it” would take care of that problem, of course. But if you accept that scenario, then you can’t take the results of any investigation as truth.

Unless of course it matches the conclusion you have yourself jumped to.


106 posted on 07/26/2013 1:32:24 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Rio

>>>Are there any recently-made cars that still have mechanical links between the driver and the car?<<<

Lada.:)


107 posted on 07/26/2013 2:01:15 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: nascarnation

I have a stick shift. Would a hacker be able to override my changing shifts?


108 posted on 07/26/2013 2:23:36 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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To: Army Air Corps

Ouch !


109 posted on 07/26/2013 2:56:48 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I don’t think he was a conservative (or have no one offer proof of that), just maybe went places the average progressive doesn’t go.


110 posted on 07/26/2013 4:10:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Sherman Logan

“Explosive residue would be present on the pieces of the car.”

Of course there would be, Sherman. The car smashed and exploded into a fireball at 100 mph.


111 posted on 07/26/2013 4:46:28 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: nascarnation
maybe lockup just the left front/rear brakes?
112 posted on 07/26/2013 5:01:51 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 3catsanadog

Maybe in the very latest models, but certainly not before that.


113 posted on 07/26/2013 5:32:17 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: mandaladon

Meanwhile, my brother claims I am an embarrassment to HIM because I still drive my 1976 truck & my 1979 station wagon.


114 posted on 07/26/2013 8:18:20 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Sherman Logan

Nice try, but the fire would destroy your mythical residues. But we understand why you jumped in with your effort on the oligarchs’ behalf. The more you do that the more obvious it becomes about for whom you work FR.


115 posted on 07/26/2013 9:12:39 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: nascarnation
The steering on all cars is a mechanical linkage.

Nope. I have a 2013 Honda Accord and the steering is electric, not mechanical.

116 posted on 07/26/2013 9:14:40 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Gene Eric; All

Please substantiate your no with an explanation or a link.


117 posted on 07/26/2013 9:41:39 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: MHGinTN

Yes, those of us paid off by the Bilderbergers have a good life.

I have a good friend who is an arson investigator. I ran his theory by you, and he got a really good laugh.

Thanks.


118 posted on 07/26/2013 12:44:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

And you actually thought folks would believe you with that little deception? Bwahahaha, and thanks, I can always use a good laugh.


119 posted on 07/26/2013 12:55:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Don’t be confused between steering assist (aka power steering) and actual steering linkage.
Take a look under the hood, you’ll see all the traditional mechanism there connecting the steering column shaft to the uprights via the rack and pinion and tie rods.


120 posted on 07/26/2013 2:36:57 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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