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The 5 Coolest Hacks of '07

Posted by samzenpus on from the still-no-pencil-hack dept.

ancientribe writes "Nothing was sacred to hackers in '07 — not cars, not truckers, and not even the stock exchange. Dark Reading reviews five hacks that went after everyday things we take for granted even more than our PC's — our car navigation system, a trucker's freight, WiFi connections, iPhone, and (gulp) the electronic financial trading systems that record our stock purchases and other online transactions."

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  1. Re:Already slashdotted by paulmac84 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Coral Cache:

    http://www.darkreading.com.nyud.net/document.asp?doc_id=142127&WT.svl=news1_2

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  2. Re:Number one is FUD by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 5, Informative

    Better have a diesel engine in this case. Nothing electric to be hacked.

    Actually, modern diesels are as computer-driven as gasoline engines. Maybe even more so in the case of large trucks--on every 18-wheeler I've driven in the past ten years, there was no physical linkage between the accelerator pedal ("the hammer," in trucker's lingo) and the engine. Instead, there was a digital position sensor and a multi-conductor cable that fed data to the ECU. All the gauges on the instrument panel were computer-controlled as well.

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