Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

[Shelley]

On July 24, 2015 3:20:23 PM 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.

Calling something a conspiracy theory is a common disinfo tactic.  We used 
to have to play Spot the Fed, now they out themselves...

-s