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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
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday July 31 2019, @04:14AM
If you put the voice activated safe door on the border of your property facing the street, and there is a mechanism inside the safe to throw a gold bar into the street when you call out a specific number, then yes, standing on the street calling out numbers is legal.
You might be able to argue that taking the gold bar was theft, but the court is still going to laugh at you.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.