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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. "

4 of 393 comments (clear)

  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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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