Comments: Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It
I think I'm gonna have a heart-attack and die from that surprise. :(
www . youtube . com/watch?v=wxlhyX-4qKI
ANYTHING with a wireless component, whether a Cellphone, Desktop, Laptop, Automobile, RFID, Heck even a Remote Control, has the capability of this sort of thing happening.
I miss the days of Network-Cable connections as you had the surety of privacy by merely disconnecting the cable from your computer.
No more.
Especially since you cannot physically disconnect the wireless component nor safely cut power to the circuit.
George Orwell was correct - but only in a Ballpark kind of way. But this has more potential for sinister use than what was portrayed in 1984.
Posted by John Condon at July 25, 2015 12:05 PM
I don't think the core problem here is at the consumer end of things. The entertainment/wi-fi system doesn't /have/ to be connected to the computer functions associated with the car's operation, but the manufacturers either see unified systems as simplifying maintenance and updates, or they're setting up systems that they think will be important to self-driving vehicles later on.
The same trend toward unified on-board systems is increasingly present in military hardware. I anticipate catastrophe in a major power confrontation -- get ready for some Battlestar Galactica-style revival of mothballed "obsolete" systems in a future crisis.
Posted by Schill MacGuffin at July 25, 2015 12:38 PM
And that's what happened to Michael Hastings.
Posted by bilejones at July 26, 2015 3:26 PM
But you can trust your smart phone-based check cashing and home security systems!
Posted by Christopher Taylor at July 27, 2015 7:09 AM