Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Jul 24 17:16:23 PDT 2015


On 7/24/15, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> 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).

So true - headline of "human injures car" is so common we don't even
blink these days...



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