"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 <list@sysfu.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700, M373 <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.