Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

[M373]

It's not a matter of credulity in believing that authorities would carry
out such an assassination, the problem is asserting such an act without
direct evidence. As I said, and as insider Richard Clarke said, it would
be difficult to show.

"What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is
that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a
car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't
want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want
the brakes on, to launch an air bag,"

"in the case of Michael Hastings, what evidence is available publicly is
consistent with a car cyber attack. And the problem with that is you
can't prove it."

It's a conundrum uncovering such operations. If the US has not taken
such acts yet, it, and others, will do so. It's akin to the older
problem of knowing if someone was poisoned in a way to appear as a
natural malady. Intel agencies have long used such measures.

On 24-Jul-15 17:33, Eric Hernandez wrote:
> "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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