(Dagbladet): In these days it has been made major foray in the struggle to get cars that governs itself on roads, primarily to protect the taxi driver to themselves and others.
However, it may look as if it is advantageous to cling to the old Opel Volvo or even a while. In any case, if one is to believe Wired Magazine.
Took Control
In an article published today they report on how they hired two hackers to see if they could take control of a Jeep Cherokee from their own living. Behind the wheel of the car sat magazine nervous journalist.
And the mission was completed with flying colors.
Security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek broke into your car’s “electronic brain” through underholdningssyustemet and wrote about the program code before they planted their own virus. Then there was the cat playing with the mouse.
First they put on hip-hop music and turned the volume to the max before your air conditioning got the same treatment. Then took the life of both the gearshift and brakes.
The journalist, Andy Greenberg, ended in a ditch, but came from the episode without injury.
– Going taking life
Miller, who was one of the two who took over the car’s systems, works as a security researcher for Twitter, and has a history as hacker for US National Security Agency (NSA).
He is afraid this could be a far greater problem in the future than it is now. It writes USA Today.
– If consumers have not begun to complain to automakers about this, then it is high time. This is the type of software errors that are going to take life.
They will present their findings on the major security conference “Black Hat” in Las Vegas on August 1, but they intend to omitting details about exactly how they took over the car to prevent others from doing it.
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