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How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap

Posted by timothy on from the at-that-point-you've-already-controlled-the-door dept.

mspohr writes with this excerpt from The Register: "Spanish hackers have been showing off their latest car-hacking creation; a circuit board using untraceable, off-the-shelf parts worth $20 that can give wireless access to the car's controls while it's on the road. The device, which will be shown off at next month's Black Hat Asia hacking conference, uses the Controller Area Network (CAN) ports car manufacturers build into their engines for computer-system checks. Once assembled, the smartphone-sized device can be plugged in under some vehicles, or inside the bonnet of other models, and give the hackers remote access to control systems. 'A car is a mini network,' security researcher Alberto Garcia Illera told Forbes. 'And right now there's no security implemented.'"

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  1. Bluetooth ODB-II? by chill · · Score: 4, Informative

    And how does this differ from the Bluetooth ODB-II connector I use to stream car data to my cell phone? That is wireless and also requires being plugged into the diagnostic port on the car.

    I can pull all sorts of data from that. If I spend a little more, I can get a full CAN-bus connection and actually *send* information and control things.

    This isn't hacking. It is a product demo for VW.

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  2. How the frack do I get out of Beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Please, please, kill beta now. Delete every bit of this horrible interface.