"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@sysfu.com> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700, M373 <M373@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.