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These people took full remote control of a car and disabled the braking system.
Sunday, 07-Feb-16 19:04:46 UTC from web-
@eyepie Which is funny because back in the day (I used to work in market research), automotive systems engineers were swearing blind that they'd never allow any of the cars external comms hardware to communicate with any of the motive systems.
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@ceruleanspark The systems have to be connected so that you can send firmware updates to the main car from that external comms hardware...
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@eyepie At the time they were saying that firmware updating, whilst necessary, would always be done at service time by mechanics, so no wireless hardware was involved.
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@ceruleanspark Seriously? Well that doesn't seem to be the case anymore
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@eyepie This was...probably about 10 years back now?
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@ceruleanspark It takes less than that to forget common sense.
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