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Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does)

Posted by timothy on from the no-one-would-and-they-wouldn't-want-to dept.

guanxi writes: "IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article about hacking and specifically, the "hacker's nirvana on wheels", all the way from hot-rodding to reprogramming your digital ignition. Of course, I neither endorse nor recommend any of the procedures mentioned, any of which may be inherently dangerous to your life and your warranty. "

12 of 393 comments (clear)

  1. Bicycle. by 0xB · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's why I cycle. Nothing to hack into.

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    0xB
    1. Re:Bicycle. by ktakki · · Score: 5, Funny
      Nothing to hack into.


      Nothing to hack? Hah!

      It starts with the baseball cards taped to the frame that make the BRRRRRRR sound in the spokes.

      Next thing you know you've got an oxy-acetalyne torch in your hand and you're welding a sissy bar to the frame and extending the front forks for that low-rent low-rider look.

      Ask the people at Fat City or Rivendell how they got started.

      k.

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      "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
    2. Re:Bicycle. by tartanboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except your bike lock...

    3. Re:Bicycle. by errxn · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nothing to hack? Hah!

      It starts with those beers that you drank at the bar that you're walking home from....

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      In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
    4. Re:Bicycle. by dhogaza · · Score: 3, Funny

      My God ... Nike, Adidas and all the rest rely on the fact that your feet need high-tech aids if you're to simply walk from the fridge to the couch with a cold one.

      Do you really believe that your shoes don't record your beverage brand choice?

  2. How do you... by IronTek · · Score: 3, Funny

    So how do you think you explain this to your car company if you screw it up?

    Honda: "what's the problem, sir"

    You: "well, I was wiring an internal network into my car and fused my hand to the cable and the glove box. Is this covered?"

  3. The Aritcle in a Nutshell... by cscx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man invents automobile.

    Man builds automobile.

    Man adds digital data bus to automobile.

    Man discovers that you can snoop on automobile's digital data busses.

    Man succeeds.

    Man discovers no useful information from snooping automobile's digital data bus.

    Logical conclusion: Man has too much time on his hands.

  4. My warranty? by teslatug · · Score: 2, Funny

    "dangerous to your life and your warranty"

    Yeah I would hate to expire :)
  5. OK - Free beer offer by bunyip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, you got it. I'll buy a beer for the first true hack on a Segway.

    Suppose you had one, what would a cool hacker (such as you, dear reader) make it do?

    Oh, BTW, I guess I'd have to buy you a Ginger Beer.

    Alan.

    1. Re:OK - Free beer offer by boopus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Obviously you'd teach it to be "posessed" so that it would wander around the room and bump into things... Of course, it should map things out and only bump into them once. Reproducing old hacks with new hardware is a tradition.

  6. Hmmm..... by The_dev0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if I can just hack my car to start somewhere in the first 200 tries...

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    Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
  7. Re:Car Mods, Real Power versus Silly Stickers by GregWebb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Llamborghini - is that the welsh sports car manufacturer?

    ;-)

    Sorry...

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    Greg

    (Inside a nuclear plant)
    Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!