Interesting read, imo.
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Of course it's hacking, the physical connection excuse is just corporate spin. It won't be long before there's a box available on the market for street level crims to use and I'm sure they'll find a way of using to extort money out of people.
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Controlling the steering??? Would have to have some kind of electric steering for the Ecu to be involved for example the automatic assisted parking?? Normal power steering they would only be able to send a signal to shut the PAS pump but not control the steering.
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diable wrote:You have to physically connect the laptop to the ECU and as mentioned in the article it's not really "hacking"
At the moment. Out of curiosity, what would you call it,Stefan?
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It is hacking, they are making a system do something it was not desigend to do.
the way they have connected to the system is irrelivant.
the way they have connected to the system is irrelivant.
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hey!!! that guy owes me 15% of his $30m fortunediable wrote:All it is is the same as attaching a laptop to your ECU and fettling with the options but to a slightly higher level as they are using a more advance interface.gooner1 wrote:diable wrote:You have to physically connect the laptop to the ECU and as mentioned in the article it's not really "hacking"
At the moment. Out of curiosity, what would you call it,Stefan?
Hacking would be sat hidden away somewhere, wirelessly taking control of someones car and sending it around and around a roundabout whilst displaying the following message on the sat nav screen "The car will be crashed in to bus unless you transfer XXX amount to XXX account
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