Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

[Eric Hernandez]

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