On July 24, 2015 5:13:46 AM Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
Not sure if this is true:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ <quote> I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. ... Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass. ... The result of their work was a hacking technique—what the security industry calls a zero-day exploit—that can target Jeep Cherokees and give the attacker wireless control, via the Internet, to any of thousands of vehicles. ... I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That’s when they cut the transmission.
Immediately my accelerator stopped working. </quote>
It's true. This isn't the first time these guys have demonstrated this kind of exploit. I heard an interview with Greenberg on NPR earlier in the week. Fascinating and terrifying! -S