Car Hacking

We all knew it had to happen eventually.

http://jalopnik.com/5610373/hackers-wirelessly-crash-cars-computer-at-highway-speeds

I like the shark hood ornament

OMG, someone might be able to make me think I've got a bad tire pressure sensor at highway speed! Horrors!!!

skruffy wrote: OMG, someone might be able to make me think I've got a bad tire pressure sensor at highway speed! Horrors!!!

Yeah, it doesn't sound like a big deal.....other than the fact that after doing this for a while they fried the computer (costs $$$) or that the pressure sensors have unique id's, which means that someone will eventually use this to track individual wheels (...and the cars that they are on.)

The computer security issue I'm waiting for is a crime wave of luxo-barge thefts when people figure out how to spoof the onstar signals to unlock cars.

I'll go put my tinfoil hat on.

article said: The researchers note that it took several hours of graduate-level engineering to devise their tools and crack into the monitors

so that means your average 13 year old could do it in about 15 minutes...

ignorant wrote:

article said: The researchers note that it took several hours of graduate-level engineering to devise their tools and crack into the monitors

so that means your average 13 year old could do it in about 15 minutes...

Hehe, yeah, that's what I was thinking. And if someone can figure out how to unlock the doors of an Onstar-equipped car, they can probably figure out how to shut it down on the road, too.

carzan wrote:

ignorant wrote:

article said: The researchers note that it took several hours of graduate-level engineering to devise their tools and crack into the monitors

so that means your average 13 year old could do it in about 15 minutes...

Hehe, yeah, that's what I was thinking. And if someone can figure out how to unlock the doors of an Onstar-equipped car, they can probably figure out how to shut it down on the road, too.

Yeah! Isn't there an Onstar ad doing that very thing, so some state troopers can catch a miscreant who had the temerity to jack an Onstar equipped Yukon?

I'm glad the only real wireless link that Sparky has to the outside world is the radio and the keyless entry. being an '04, it was before the era of mandatory TPMS

this COULD potentially wreak havoc if someone decided to go to a high level race where telemetry was allowed and start screwing with the onboard systems via the telemetry link, depending on how much of the car was computer controlled and how much was a physical, mechanical/hydraulic/pneumatic connection/linkage/hose. I'm not really sure how secure the link is on real-time telemetry, though

Newfangled witchcraft, these black-box computer things are the devil! I gotta go adjust the points on my AMC.