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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

How to Hack a Car and Control It From 1500 Miles Away:

"When you are driving an automobile today, you are driving a big computer system that happens to have wheels and a motor," says a security researcher interviewed by Motherboard. And there are definite vulnerabilities in CAN bus, the network at the heart of your car that communicates with everything from the windshield wipers to the engine. In the video, you can watch information security researcher Mathew Solnick take control of a car from his laptop. If it's any consolation, hacking a car is not easy, and this is definitely not the simplest way for someone to take you out. So take heart-there are plenty of other things to fear in the world than car hackers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jstaBeXgAs#t=47 [youtube.com]

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