BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @02:19AM from the was-the-other-guy dept.

itwbennett writes: Last month, security researchers demonstrated how to circumnavigate the in-vehicle entertainment system of the Jeep Cherokee to take over the car itself, including control of the dashboard, steering mechanism, transmission, locks, and brakes. The more than 1.4 million vehicles being recalled all run the QNX Neutrino OS, which was supplied by BlackBerry subsidiary QNX Software Systems. But the flaw being exploited was not within the OS itself, BlackBerry said Monday in its blog.

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Old guy story by H0p313ss · 2015-08-11 02:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

Amusingly, in while taking first year university courses in 1993, I placed second in a programming competition that was sponsored by OTI (now IBM) and QNX (now Blackberry).
First prize was a licensed copy of QNX, second prize was a 2400 baud modem. I think I got a better deal with the modem.

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