[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

[jburnes]

Why go to all that trouble.  Just take it out of circuit.  Cut the 
printed circuit
board leads and disable it or if its in an inaccessible black box, cut 
the
leads to the box.

Easy enough.


On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 04:11  PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tim May wrote:
>> Unlikely. Getting juice into the innards of a box in a way so as to
>> overwrite data is not nearly so simply as applying sparky things to 
>> the
>> outside of the box. Lots of reasons for this.
>
> The idea wasn't about overwriting the data. The idea was about frying 
> the
> chip with the data inside (and if all the other chips inside the box
> become a collateral damage, let's that be so). As long as it is outside
> the technological abilities of the given adversary to retrieve the data
> from the fried chip, the objective is reached.
>
> The idea also wasn't about the outside of the box, I thought rather
> disconnecting the power leads and blasting the spark into the power-GND
> pair, or into the (disconnected, we don't want to kill the entire car
> electronics) data bus. With a bit of luck, the spark could get through 
> the
> filters and into the Vcc pins of the chips.