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Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required
Albanach writes: Following on from this week's Wired report showing the remote control of a Jeep using a cell phone, security researchers claim to have achieved a similar result using just the car radio. Using off the shelf components to create a fake radio station, the researchers sent signals using the DAB digital radio standard used in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. After taking control of the car's entertainment system it was possible to gain control of vital car systems such as the brakes. In the wild, such an exploit could allow widespread simultaneous deployment of a hack affecting huge numbers of vehicles.
He believed an attack could be done via a DAB broadcast, but from the article, he doesn't seem to have tried on a real car.
That said, car companies do a lot of idiot stuff these days, like the trunk which opens automatically when you put your foot under the car and you are nearby. This is just a big gift for thieves, just wait for tourists with a car full of stuff to leave their car, stand in the vicinity and put your foot under the car when they leave but they are still near enough to allow the trunk to open...
I gave up with the idea of an useful sig...
Umm, no. I worked on the last iteration of the BBC website, specifically on advertising for the news site. If you browse the website from outside you are redirected to bbc.com which is the same site with commercial advertising for international users.
- Dan