Remote automotive disabling. by Fremdfirma

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Remote automotive disabling.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:53
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:37 AM

I told you so.

Car owners stranded as U.S. hacker disables more than 100 vehicles over the internet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1258873/Car-owners-s
tranded-U-S-hacker-disables-100-vehicles-internet.html

Yanno, I hate being right about this kinda shit.

Mind you, that's with the auto-cutoffs used by shitheel finance companies right now - what's gonna happen when the damn feds/cops demand a remote shutoff override built it, the same way they made telecoms backdoor their stuff, leading to all manner of hacker exploitation of it...

Why, some asshole who thinks it's funny to stall your vehicle in front of an oncoming bus or train, that's what, and all the while the dickheads that set you up for that exploitation by demanding the backdoor in the first place start decrying any responsibility, blaming you, and whining about the greater good...

FUCK the greater good, keep your goddamn widgets outta my friggin car - and the fact that I have radar absorbent material under those body panels, or that a remote reading of my EDR will result in a profane diatribe instead of a diagnostic code, that's MY business, and if you had kept your nose to yourself it wouldn't be an issue!

That said, feel FREE to RFID scan my car, go rriight ahead, yeahhhh, heh heh heh.

-F

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Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:53 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I hate being right.

GM backs 'black boxes' bill
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100320/AUTO01/3200312/1148/GM-backs--
black-boxes--bill

Most chilling of the lot ?

Quote:
NHTSA chief David Strickland said this month the agency is considering requiring all vehicles to have EDRs.Ferguson said GM thinks a mandatory brake-shift override system, allowing brakes to stop a car with an open throttle, is "reasonable."

And then when some hacker punk pins your car on the railroad tracks with a train comin, they'll be oh so quick to decry all responsibility.

What I do with *MY* stuff, is between me and my stuff, and using the presumption of guilt to piss on the Fourth Amendment and boobytrap stuff offends the hell out of me, especially when you go and try to outlaw removing the damn boobytraps - if I OWN the vehicle in question, it's my property, not the states, not the banks, not the insurance company, MINE, and mine alone.

Besides which, given how easy it is to reprogram an EDR to say what you want it to, there's no way in hell I would trust an insurance company not to manipulate it in that fashion if there was a financial benefit to it, since such manipulation is undetectable - as I mentioned, my EDR will render a profane and insulting diatribe instead of a diagnostic code if you remote access it.
(and yes, they CAN be remote accessed, many of em, so this is a potential privacy issue as well.)

-Frem

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