Posted on 02/22/2015 10:06:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Tell us something we had not already figured out. I had pretty much pegged it as a bomb on board or maybe a drone strike but the cyber attack works.
Please! I thought I remembered that name “Richard Clarke” so I refreshed the screen on him. Yep....Clarke was a political operative in government who frequently got outside his area of expertise (you know, that MIT masters degree from the MIT Latin School that translates into being an expert on WMDs and stuff?).
He’s a complete opportunistic sleazebag IN MY OPINION, and he deserves about as much consideration as a wayward fart.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Produce conclusive evidence of real-time hacking and control of this MSM journalist’s vehicle or STFU. Click bait, referral bait, sensationalism, call it what you want. Given the right motive and monetary compensation, I could concoct a situation where your toothbrush hates you and wants to kill you.
Why would anyone, let alone government want to kill a journalist? They are government’s (Obama) best friend. It just don’t make no sense.
So just ask yourself...if it was REALLY possible to remotely hack and control someone’s vehicle (without having prior access to it to modify the control system) - don’t you think we’d be reading about mysterious car crashes every day? From angry spouses to business partners looking to cash in on insurance policies to all manner of criminal activities, don’t you think there would be at least one incident per day? Week? Month? Yet here we’re suppose to toss Occams Razor out the window and believe this happened.
Anything can be rigged. There are enough technically smart people around that if this were possible on un-rigged stock vehicles, it would be frontpage news.
I’m sorry to admit I had already forgotten about Hastings and his bizarre death which was likely not an accident.
I hear James OKeefe is coming out with something new during this week, and he says openly that for the first time he is afraid for his life. If
O’Keefe does come out with something, I hope it’s worth doing, and not just another annoying prank, like taking occupancy of Gov. Landerieu’ office in Louisianna, which accomplished nothing constructive at all.
The car is accessed remotely via a transceiver that takes over the electronics that control the steering,acceleration,braking etc. Access to the car is needed to install that transceiver.
I guess the trick is keep your car locked in the garage.
My friend in L.A. who is as apolitical as they come happened upon the accident scene that night. I went to L.A. a couple weeks later for business, and she picked us up at the airport. As we drove through that neighborhood going to her place, she mentioned being there that night... she said it was strange that Feds were on the scene before any local cops were. I thought that was strange for a “typical” middle of the night car accident.
You saw yesterday James O’Keefe is reporting something this week that has him afraid for his life?
Progressive Snapshot Exposes Drivers to Car Hacking
Wireless device in two million cars wide open to hacking
2 million Progressive Snapshot customers may be at risk for car hacking
Snapshot Hacking, the easy way! Maestro's guide to breaking GeckoOS's 256-line limit
(...for instance, there are other references out there.)
Yes I saw that. He probably should be nervous. He has been a real thorn in the Obama admin’s side.
“Hastings’ family had been trying to convince him to go into detox.”
Wow, hadn’t heard that before. You’ve got to be seriously addicted and unable to get yourself off junk if you need detox. If you’re that far gone, Rehab won’t take you unless you get a little cleaned up in detox.
Did you read the comment by joanah vark?
There was a short lived spin-off of the X-Files called, ‘The Lone Gunmen,’ which featured a couple ‘accidental’ deaths in car accidents resulting from others surreptitiously taking over vehicle controls remotely. IIRC, same episode from early 2001 that featured a plot to fly an airliner into the WTC.
I loved Lone Gunmen and would have liked to have seen it go a couple more seasons. Same with Time Trax despite the problems it had.
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
Car hijacking?
Or combo carbomb/coverup?
The problem is not so much computers as radio access to the car, through something like OnStar. Without that radio access, direct access would be necessary. Radio access makes takeover possible without direct access.
I hadn't thought of that.
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