It's not a matter of credulity in believing that authorities would
   carry out such an assassination, the problem is asserting such an act
   without direct evidence. As I said, and as insider Richard Clarke said,
   it would be difficult to show.
   "What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is
   that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a
   car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver
   doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver
   doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag,"
   "in the case of Michael Hastings, what evidence is available publicly
   is consistent with a car cyber attack. And the problem with that is you
   can't prove it."
   It's a conundrum uncovering such operations. If the US has not taken
   such acts yet, it, and others, will do so. It's akin to the older
   problem of knowing if someone was poisoned in a way to appear as a
   natural malady. Intel agencies have long used such measures.

   On 24-Jul-15 17:33, Eric Hernandez wrote:

     "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major
     powers -- including the United States -- know how to remotely seize
     control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on the car -- and
     I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get
     away with it."
     - Richard Clarke, US Counter-Terrorism Czar during Clinton and Bush.

   On July 24, 2015 3:11:31 PM PDT, Seth [1]<list@sysfu.com> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700, M373 [2]<M373@riseup.net> wrote:


     On 24-Jul-15 11:52, Georgi Guninski wrote:

     I seriously wonder if there's any assassinations that've happened
     with the use of this mechanism. (1. wait until approaching
     intersection at high speed, 2. disengage brakes + steering wheel, is
     probably very effective)

     We were discussing this in chat. Someone suggested "sooner or later
     sploits like this will appear on black/gray sploits markets or even
     become public". Then likely car accidents will go up and maybe
     mainstream media will cry "car/hackers injure human" (the other way
     is not news, it is statistics).

     Some conspiracists conjectured this might have happened in the
     fatal, fiery crash of the investigative journalist Michael Hastings
     in L.A., but without hard evidence it's the purview of the credulous
     prone to conspiracy theories rather than an actual one (of which
     there are many).

     Right, I mean the official story was such a credulous one, and no
     one in squeaky clean US power structure had any motive to eliminate
     an investigative journalist like Hastings. Oh those credulous
     conspiracy theorists with their crazy theories about assassination
     via car hacking.

References

   1. mailto:list@sysfu.com
   2. mailto:M373@riseup.net