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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 30 2019, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

In the year 2026, at rush hour, your self-driving car abruptly shuts down right where it blocks traffic. You climb out to see gridlock down every street in view, then a news alert on your watch tells you that hackers have paralysed all Manhattan traffic by randomly stranding internet-connected cars.

Flashback to July 2019, the dawn of autonomous vehicles and other connected cars, and physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems, Inc. have applied physics in a new study to simulate what it would take for future hackers to wreak exactly this widespread havoc by randomly stranding these cars. The researchers want to expand the current discussion on automotive cyber-security, which mainly focuses on hacks that could crash one car or run over one pedestrian, to include potential mass mayhem.

They warn that even with increasingly tighter cyber defences, the amount of data breached has soared in the past four years, but objects becoming hackable can convert the rising cyber threat into a potential physical menace.

Hackers could use connected cars to gridlock whole cities

[Source]: Georgia Tech


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @07:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @07:42PM (#873241)

    Man, and I thought the car hacking scene in this movie was kinda dumb... but only because I never thought people would be dumb enough to network cars and give the software access to power control or the motor or anything.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoB_mdZxNlY [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday July 31 2019, @05:21AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Wednesday July 31 2019, @05:21AM (#873440)

    Yep, and the reason is the major change that technology brought to culture, the reason people are going to do this, regardless of how stupid it is, and create a world where a silly scene in an action movie becomes reality.
    Summed up in a meme.....

    https://i.imgur.com/ZtacKhz.jpg [imgur.com]

    Seriously, this is the change in attitude that will allow this.

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