What is a hundred mile an hour computer. Your later model cars, trucks, etc. They all have computer systems of some sort running something in your vehicle. And the car genius’s add more each year without to much thought to the consequences of there actions.
I am a 'hope to someday be' White Hat Hacker so lets take a moment and look at this from a 'Black Hats' point of view.
It's an open market is the first thing that comes to my mind. A final frontier. Hackers are working hard everyday to hack into your car or cars computer system and are making significant progress each day.
I've been keeping up with this issue for a couple of years, every since I read an article on a couple of hackers working on a hack that hacks into your Onstar.
http://hackaday.com/2010/03/16/follow-up-hacking-onstar/
http://gizmodo.com/5540029/no-kidding-onstar-cars-can-be-hacked-remotely-controlled
A 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee disables over 100 cars after being laid off from his job in 2010.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/
An article in August 12, 2013 issue of Forbes magazine shows where two hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hack into 3,500-pound Ford Escape. The car after being hacked refuses to stop–or even slow down. They take control of all aspects of the car including the steering.
And where do the big car companies stand on the issue.
Ford seems to be taking the issue seriously while Toyota's safety manager John Hanson takes a stand that 'Real' car-hacking would require physically jacking into the target car.
“Hey John we aren't in the Matrix.” We don't have to jack in.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/
Now am I wrong but don't most American's cars sit in their driveways? Thence the physical access. Oh and John, FYI, Omar Ramos Lopez never touched a single car of the hundred cars he shut down in Austin in 2010, he shut them down remotely.
Who says that in a couple of years an app isn't created to do the exact same thing these guys have created only on a smaller scale. (Refer back to the Hackaday article).
People, we sent astronauts to the moon on a computer the size of a room and with less memory on the very phone you're carrying in your pocket today.
There may come a time when you don't have to hire a hit man. You hire a hacker.Your doing seventy miles an hour down the interstate and your car shuts down, no steering, no brakes,
'What do you do?? What do you do??
'What do you do?? What do you do??
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