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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Same goes for my son-in-law's '49 Ford coupe. It's sitting in my driveway and I need to move it often. No emergency brake, no windows except front windshield, no wipers... And a loose steering column. Pull the steering wheel towards you and it comes off. He manages to drive it somehow. Oh, it's a chopped roof so it would be hard to crawl out the window opening. But I'll take that car over these remote control things they're making.
Does anyone else have this already deployed?
I saw that in an episode of NCIS ;-)
I know my '65 Mustang Fastback is out of Skynet's reach, at least for the time being. It's safer than it used to be, too - I installed a collapsing type steering column with a rag joint and ditched the old "spear-o-matic" original. It has a dual-reservoir master cylinder and 4-wheel disk brakes now, as well as a 4-point roll cage with 3-point belts (as befitting its Shelby GT-350 homage paint job).
Subtle, it ain't - but I control every moving part.
I’ll keep driving my 1966 Karmann Ghia
BTW, I'm a Niven fan. Great screen name.
Well put. New cars are more like full-scale versions of R/C hobbyists' model vehicles, with the radio control transmitters hidden inside and disguised as normal controls.
Nice car!
I paid about $3,700 when I bought it brand new in 1966, while stationed in Germany.
Now worth 10X that price?
Not that I know of.
Probably
I’ve got a 1979 Mercedes Benz 240D. Likewise.
Additional pension plan!
The lights in this vehicle are analog. I dont see how you turn them on electronically. I dont see how you control the steering or brakes either.
Perhaps things worked different in 2010, as mine is a 2006, but Im still shaking my head here.
Are you sure your screen name isn't really DoubtyOne? :-)
we’ve heard that the reporter’s death in CA was ‘consistent’ with a automobile cyber attack.
which means, they’ve been doing it long enough to know what ‘consistent’ looks like
I wondered how long it would take for somebody to recognize my screen name. You win a cookie! Like the Kzin, my strategy has not evolved beyond scream and leap.
No...
Thank you Daily Mail. Not all scandals are phoney. But all of us do need tin foil hats! Hastings’ death just became another CIA/FBI/BHO situation which will need more cover up. No question, we need more pencils and a larger sheet of paper.
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