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A good reason to have an old car.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/21/autos-hacking-idUSL1N1011QN20150721
A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car's engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars and trucks.
Former National Security Agency hacker Charlie Miller, now at Twitter, and IOActive researcher Chris Valasek used a feature in the Fiat Chrysler telematics system Uconnect to break into a car being driven on the highway by a reporter for technology news site Wired.com.
In a controlled test, they turned on the Jeep Cherokee's radio and activated other inessential features before rewriting code embedded in the entertainment system hardware to issue commands through the internal network to steering, brakes and the engine.
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Many Jeeps could remain unpatched, leaving them open to attack. But the researchers said hackers would need to know the Internet Protocol address of a car in order to attack it specifically, and that address changes every time the car starts.
Otherwise, "You have to attack random cars," Valasek said. The men stressed that it would be easy to make modest adjustments to their code and attack other types of vehicles.
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(15,320 posts)You're much more likely to have a car accident than have someone hack your car.