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Testing Out Cell-Phone Viruses on a Prius

Posted by timothy on from the deep-underground-in-their-lair dept.

Mikko Hypponen writes "Couple of months ago there were rumours floating around that Bluetooth viruses could infect the on-board computers of some Lexus cars, or at least cause some visible effects on them. We took a Toyota Prius to an underground bunker and tested various Bluetooth mobile phone viruses and assorted Bluetooth attacks against the onboard computer. Results were somewhat surprising. It came as no surprise that we could not infect the car, but the Prius performed in the test even better than expected. No matter what we did the car did not react to the Bluetooth traffic at all. Cabir tried to send itself to the car and the car just did not allow the Bluetooth OBEX transfer to happen. Then, the whole car crashed (but not because of a virus)... Full story with pictures in our weblog."

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  1. FP! by Zlurg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woo hoo

    1. Re:FP! by Zlurg · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      OMG I can't believe this worked. I now--OFFICIALLY--have too much freaking time on my hands.

      And, for some reason, I give a crap about /., its prestige and the accompanying hordes of women that flock to a first-poster's side at the successful posting of the letter F and P (with an exclamation mark).

      I don't know whether to shit or go bowling.

    2. Re:FP! by winkydink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Either one will be fine as I wouldn't expect that flock of women any time soon.

      --

      "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

  2. LEARN HOW TO DO ANYTHING -- THE HOW TO WIKI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WannaWiki

  3. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Our Procter-Silex Blender proves invunerable to all known TCP/IP exploits. Try as we might, we couldn't DDOS it. And it blended some superb margaritas to boot.