Did you see this article yesterday?
Hackers hijack software in a CAR and remotely control the steering, brakes and horn using a laptop
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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.
AND John Roberts has done a special report on FoX about hackinginto controls of ships at sea taking over navigation without captain even knowing...saw this today
You cannot control the steering with a hack.
Jack most recently was the director of embedded security research at IOActive. He had worked in the security industry for more than a decade, serving in various roles at McAfee, Juniper Networks (NSDQ:JNPR), eEye digital Security and FoundStone.FoundStone. That sounds recently familiar. (??)
Jack later turned his focus to hacking automobile systems and electronic medical devices, showing how small systems and components that run critical processes can be used by an attacker to cause serious damage or death.Interesting.
And accelerator?