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Hackers hijack software in a car and remotely control the steering, brakes and horn using a laptop
Daily Mail ^ | 25 Jul 2013 | VICTORIA WOOLLASTON

Posted on 07/25/2013 1:42:55 PM PDT by mandaladon

Forget hacking accounts, computers or mobile devices - security engineers from Indiana have managed to hack the software inside the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape. Using a laptop wirelessly connected to the car's electronics, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were able to remotely control the brakes, the accelerate, change the speedometer, switch the headlights on and off, tighten the seatbelts and even blast the horn. The project was funded by a grant from the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to highlight the security risks affecting modern-day cars. Miller, a security engineer at Twitter, and Valasek, Director of Security Intelligence at IOActive, are due to officially announce their findings at the Def Con 21 conference in Vegas the weekend of the 1-3 Augus

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carhacker; computers; google; michaelhastings; remotecontrol; vehiclehacker
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Engineers from Indiana have managed to hack the software that runs the electronics in a 2010 Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, pictured, so that the brakes, steering, speedometer and the car's electronics can be controlled remotely using a laptop................This is scary.
1 posted on 07/25/2013 1:42:55 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

A new way for the CIA to kill people, or have they been using it for years.


2 posted on 07/25/2013 1:44:47 PM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: mandaladon

Points and condenser for me. :)


3 posted on 07/25/2013 1:45:10 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: mandaladon

Mmmm....that means that it IS possible to cause someone’s car to ram a tree at 100 mph in the middle of the night.


4 posted on 07/25/2013 1:45:29 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: mandaladon
gives new meaning to runaway vehicles with accelerator to the floor.
5 posted on 07/25/2013 1:46:51 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: mandaladon

Wirelessly controlled cars.....What could possibly go wrong?


6 posted on 07/25/2013 1:47:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Well, the GOOD thing is that you could follow your dream and smash into those cars with 0bama stickers, claiming that you were hacked and had no control.


7 posted on 07/25/2013 1:47:20 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
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To: mandaladon

They recently did a bit of wet work on a rogue journalist, combining the remote control with a nice little explosive package which they detonated when the car was ‘safely’ isolated on the road doing 100mph. The little packaged sent the motor and transmission several yards away from the car before the car hit a tree due to the torque created by the mass leaving the vehicle. Jst to make sure no one discovered their work, they had the body cremated without consent. ... Your obamaroid government at work dontchaknow.


8 posted on 07/25/2013 1:48:21 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: mandaladon

Making an AMC Pacer look good about now...


9 posted on 07/25/2013 1:48:30 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Well, the GOOD thing is that you could follow your dream and smash into those cars with 0bama stickers,

Especially the ones with the matching "Coexist" stickers.

10 posted on 07/25/2013 1:49:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mandaladon; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

11 posted on 07/25/2013 1:49:55 PM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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A new way for the CIA to kill people, or have they been using it for years.

Wait. I think some conservative journalist was killed in a "mysterious" one car accident about a month ago. He was supposedly onto something and was going to blow the lid off of it, much like Andrew Breitbart was, before his 'heart attack'.

12 posted on 07/25/2013 1:50:13 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
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To: mandaladon

Depends , the wireless connection most car companies use is bluetooth ,, what’s the max range on that?


13 posted on 07/25/2013 1:51:23 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Mmmm....that means that it IS possible to cause someone’s car to ram a tree at 100 mph in the middle of the night.

and even have the CIA show up immediately at the crash site. (or was it the FBI?)

14 posted on 07/25/2013 1:51:28 PM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
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Are there any recently-made cars that still have mechanical links between the driver and the car?


15 posted on 07/25/2013 1:54:09 PM PDT by Rio
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R.I.P. Mike HASTINGS.

In L.A. last month.


16 posted on 07/25/2013 1:56:30 PM PDT by gaijin
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My car has a manual transmission.


17 posted on 07/25/2013 1:57:54 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: mandaladon
A new way for the CIA to kill people, or have they been using it for years.

THREE WEEKS LATER: THE LATEST DETAILS, THEORIES SURROUNDING REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS’ MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN FIERY CAR CRASH

18 posted on 07/25/2013 1:58:18 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracker)
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To: mandaladon

HE KNEW TOO MUCH.

"I'm onto a big story and the Fed are interviewing ALL my close associates. I'm under surveillance and need to disappear off the grid..."

AND HE DID.

19 posted on 07/25/2013 1:58:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Neidermeyer

For us or the government?


20 posted on 07/25/2013 1:58:55 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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