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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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Engineers from Indiana have managed to hack the software that runs the electronics in a 2010 Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, pictured, so that the brakes, steering, speedometer and the car's electronics can be controlled remotely using a laptop................This is scary.
To: mandaladon
A new way for the CIA to kill people, or have they been using it for years.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:44:47 PM PDT
by
mandaladon
(The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
To: mandaladon
Points and condenser for me. :)
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:45:10 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: 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.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:45:29 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: mandaladon
gives new meaning to runaway vehicles with accelerator to the floor.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:46:51 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: mandaladon
Wirelessly controlled cars.....What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:47:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: mandaladon
Well, the GOOD thing is that you could follow your dream and smash into those cars with 0bama stickers, claiming that you were hacked and had no control.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:47:20 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
To: mandaladon
They recently did a bit of wet work on a rogue journalist, combining the remote control with a nice little explosive package which they detonated when the car was ‘safely’ isolated on the road doing 100mph. The little packaged sent the motor and transmission several yards away from the car before the car hit a tree due to the torque created by the mass leaving the vehicle. Jst to make sure no one discovered their work, they had the body cremated without consent. ... Your obamaroid government at work dontchaknow.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:48:21 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: mandaladon
Making an AMC Pacer look good about now...
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:48:30 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: The Sons of Liberty
Well, the GOOD thing is that you could follow your dream and smash into those cars with 0bama stickers,Especially the ones with the matching "Coexist" stickers.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:49:35 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: mandaladon; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I dont add you to the list...
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:49:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
To: mandaladon
A new way for the CIA to kill people, or have they been using it for years. Wait. I think some conservative journalist was killed in a "mysterious" one car accident about a month ago. He was supposedly onto something and was going to blow the lid off of it, much like Andrew Breitbart was, before his 'heart attack'.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:50:13 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
To: mandaladon
Depends , the wireless connection most car companies use is bluetooth ,, what’s the max range on that?
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:51:23 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
To: MichaelCorleone
Mmmm....that means that it IS possible to cause someones car to ram a tree at 100 mph in the middle of the night.and even have the CIA show up immediately at the crash site. (or was it the FBI?)
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:51:28 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
(For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
Are there any recently-made cars that still have mechanical links between the driver and the car?
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:54:09 PM PDT
by
Rio
To: mandaladon
R.I.P. Mike HASTINGS.
In L.A. last month.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:56:30 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Rio
My car has a manual transmission.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:57:54 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:58:18 PM PDT
by
TexasCajun
(Creepy-Ass Cracker)
To: mandaladon
HE KNEW TOO MUCH.
"I'm onto a big story and the Fed are interviewing ALL my close associates. I'm under surveillance and need to disappear off the grid..."
AND HE DID.
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:58:52 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Neidermeyer
For us or the government?
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posted on
07/25/2013 1:58:55 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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