"There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers -- including the United States -- know how to remotely seize control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on the car -- and I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."
- Richard Clarke, US Counter-Terrorism Czar during Clinton and Bush. On July 24, 2015 3:11:31 PM PDT, Seth <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700, M373 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24-Jul-15 11:52, Georgi Guninski wrote: >>>> I seriously wonder if there's any assassinations that've happened >with >>>> the >>>> use of this mechanism. (1. wait until approaching intersection at >high >>>> speed, 2. disengage brakes + steering wheel, is probably very >>>> effective) >>>> >>> We were discussing this in chat. >>> Someone suggested "sooner or later sploits like this >>> will appear on black/gray sploits markets or even become >>> public". Then likely car accidents will go up and >>> maybe mainstream media will cry "car/hackers injure human" >>> (the other way is not news, it is statistics). >> >> Some conspiracists conjectured this might have happened in the fatal, >> fiery crash of the investigative journalist Michael Hastings in L.A., >> but without hard evidence it's the purview of the credulous prone to >> conspiracy theories rather than an actual one (of which there are >many). > >Right, I mean the official story was such a credulous one, and no one >in >squeaky clean US power structure had any motive to eliminate an >investigative journalist like Hastings. > >Oh those credulous conspiracy theorists with their crazy theories about > >assassination via car hacking.
