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Your car isn?t safe from hackers. Here?s why

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2017-11-04 13:39:00 

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“Their code is an automaker’s nightmare,” wrote Wired reporter Andy Greenberg, who intrepidly volunteered to serve as a crash test dummy for the hacker duo. “Software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.”



So anyone with a newer model car can "accidentally-willfully" run off the road

 
djdrastic 2017-11-04 13:54:33 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

Yeah this has been going on for a while now.The Jeep hack was really sloppy piece of opsec/netsec on Fiat Chryslers part.