Monday, September 09, 2013
"Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks--With Me Behind The Wheel"
Science Fiction and/or technology is clearly upon us...
Andy Greenberg has quite a story at Forbes.com:
"As I drove their vehicles for more than an hour, Miller and Valasek showed that they’ve reverse-engineered enough of the software of the Escape and the Toyota Prius (both the 2010 model) to demonstrate a range of nasty surprises: everything from annoyances like uncontrollably blasting the horn to serious hazards like slamming on the Prius’ brakes at high speeds. They sent commands from their laptops that killed power steering, spoofed the GPS and made pathological liars out of speedometers and odometers. Finally they directed me out to a country road, where Valasek showed that he could violently jerk the Prius’ steering at any speed, threatening to send us into a cornfield or a head-on collision. 'Imagine you’re driving down a highway at 80 ,' Valasek says. 'You’re going into the car next to you or into oncoming traffic. That’s going to be bad times.'"
