Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Jul 24 17:22:39 PDT 2015


On 7/24/15, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:
> 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...

Bah, humbug! Conspiracy theory if ever I heard one!



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