REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
PERSONAL READINESS => Intel => Topic started by: husker77c on July 21, 2015, 12:54:05 PM
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http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway (http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway)
Yet another reason to drive an older vehicle.
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Ha! You beat me to it. I just read this and was coming here to post this exact comment! Crazy stuff.
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Yikes! Makes me concerned about the onstar systems we all have. If OnStar can remotely lock/unlock, remote start, etc then we have to assume it's possible to be hacked as well. I know my 2002 GMC does not have onstar, but my 2005 did. Did they start implementing it somewhere in between there?
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Wow. That's some scary stuff there.
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On Star
Pull the fuse!
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/
Check this one with a prius done a year or two ago.
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Isn't there some that believe that Michael Hastings car was hacked, resulting in the crash, explosion, and ultimately and his death?
Michael Hastings was the reporter that supposedly had a big story on Obama. Then suddenly died mysteriously, similar to Breitbart...
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I did not hear about this
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What kind of car was he driving? That would help to understand what was possible? I don't know of any cars that are steer by wire (there may be, I just don't know) but there are brake by wire and throttle by wire, so with those two systems under computer control you theoretically go WOT and disable brakes.
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TRN he was driving a MB C250 according to Wikipedia. I don't know if that's drive by wire or not. The wiki article discusses both sides of it. I didn't find it conclusive one way or the other. I would paste it here but can't seem to figure out how to on my phone.
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Certainly throttle, fuel pump, and door locks are...
Now i'm not saying I believe conclusively that this is what happened, but here's a high profile example of where car hacking it is/was possible for sinister purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksX-jyze7sE
On June 17, Hastings allegedly told his colleagues that that he was going off the radar for a bit because he was working on a big story. Now only furthering skepticism about the journalist’s demise, his neighbor tells the Los Angeles Weekly that Hastings was terrified to get in his own car hours before he died inside of it.
Jordanna Thigpen tells LA Weekly that Hastings approached her in the early hours of June 18 and pleaded with her to hand over her Volvo.
“His behavior grew increasingly erratic. Helicopters often circle over the hills, but Hastings believed there were more of them around whenever he was at home, keeping an eye on him. He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with,” Gene Maddaus wrote for the Weekly
"Nothing I could say could console him," Thigpen told the paper. "He was scared, and he wanted to leave town.” Thigpen told Hastings she was experiencing mechanical problems with her car and declined his pleas to take it for a drive.
According to the neighbor, that meeting occurred after midnight on the morning of June 18 just five hours before emergency responders attended the fatal car crash. In the coroner’s report published last week by investigative journalist Jason Leopold, family members said Hastings was thought to have just recently begun taking drugs after almost a decade-and-a-half of sobriety. Hastings brothers told investigators that the reporter passed out at around 3 a.m. that morning and suggested he wouldn’t be surprised if cocaine, marijuana or DMT were being abused at the time. A toxicology report identified only insignificant traces of methamphetamines and weed in Hastings’ system, and led officials to conclude that either couldn’t play role in the crash.