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Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Autos To Fix Remote Hack
swinferno writes: Fiat Chrysler announced today that it's recalling 1.4 million automobiles just days after researchers demonstrated a terrifying hack of a Jeep that was driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour. They are offering a software patch for some of their internet-connected vehicles. Cybersecurity experts Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller have publicly exposed a serious vulnerability that would allow hackers to take remote control of Fiat Chrysler Automobile (FCA) cars that run its Uconnect internet-accessing software for connected car features.
Despite this, the researchers say automakers are being slow to address security concerns, and are often approaching security in the wrong way.
From the press release: "No defect has been found. FCA US is conducting this campaign out of an abundance of caution."
Where's the hardwired switch that kills power to the transceiver(s) in the car? We've had these on laptops for a long time now, why doesn't your car have one? You can't hack what you can't access, and if the wireless access to the vehicle is literally powered off, you can't hack it.
Also could you people please just drive your cars and stop making them a lifestyle?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Dare I suggest that we build cars without computers controlling things the driver should have been taught to properly manage anyway, and then actually teach people how to drive?
sure, if you want lots more death on the highway
this technology that you hate has saved many hundreds of thousands of lives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
see how the death rate drops dramatically when these features you hate are implemented