Car hackers 'drive' car with laptop - 1 views
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Cheryl Hoffman on 26 Jul 13Next time you have a passenger in the back seat of your car offering infuriatingly "helpful" advice about your driving skills, count yourself lucky that they aren't doing anything more sinister in their attempts to guide your vehicle.
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cpanagopulos on 29 Jul 13I was quite amused by the picture of the man holding the Nintendo controller in the car on the front page of the article. It doesn't surprise me that a cars ECU can be manipulated. They are programmed to control specific tasks and are not complex nor secure. Most of the information they display and/or process is from various sensors within the engine or chassis. If the failure of important sensors occur, you may not even be able to start your car. It's a fragile system, although it was designed that way for safety, not system security.