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June 2, 2014
Future Cars in the "Land of the Free"
that cars automatically relay information wirelessly to one another as part of the U.S. government's vehicle-to-vehicle communication program. Those car-to-car messages will one day be able to engage brakes -- or your steering wheel.Your car is a giant computer - and it can be hacked
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 2, 2014 6:28 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
OnStar allows the vehicle to be shut off remotely. This will just mandate that every car can be shut off remotely. for your own good.
Posted by: Todd at June 2, 2014 7:46 PM
With a warrant the police can already use On*Star and other similar services to shut off your car. Some cars are wired without needing the service, so idiots can use their cell phone to unlock their car, start it, etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 2, 2014 7:56 PM
Well, I reckon it's time for me to buy a Ford or Chevy truck built before the millennium. Engine, plugs, points, carburetor, big six or V-8, no power anything, stick shift, no A/C — yes, even down around my place on the border.
Did just fine for millions of folks before the Boomers got in to "spoon-fed and feather-pillowed".
Anti-hack and anti-EMP for that matter. With a back yard paint job and a coat hanger for a radio antenna my vehicle will not attract attention. Think: a doddering gray-haired old geezer, bones are getting shaky and his teeth are ground down, driving the shitbox truck and nobody thinks about energetic materials or 12 power scopes, heh heh.
Posted by: chasmatic at June 2, 2014 10:16 PM
What say we hack the hacking hackers?
Posted by: edaddy at June 3, 2014 4:48 AM