{"id":2660,"date":"2013-08-01T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:24:17","slug":"car-hackers-use-laptop-to-control-standard-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/01\/car-hackers-use-laptop-to-control-standard-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hackers use laptop to control standard car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you have a passenger in the back seat of your car offering infuriatingly \u201chelpful\u201d advice about your driving skills, count yourself lucky that they aren\u2019t doing anything more sinister in their attempts to guide your vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Two security experts in the US have demonstrated taking control of two popular models of car, while someone else was driving them, using a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC ahead of revealing their research at security conference Defcon in Las Vegas in August, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said they hoped to raise awareness about the security issues around increasingly computer-dominated car control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment there are people who are in the know, there are nay-sayers who don\u2019t believe it\u2019s important, and there are others saying it\u2019s common knowledge but right now there\u2019s not much data out there,\u201d said Mr Miller, a security engineer at Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would love for everyone to start having a discussion about this, and for manufacturers to listen and improve the security of cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their work, funded by the Pentagon\u2019s research facility Darpa, has so far received a mixed reaction from the manufacturers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23443215\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23443215\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk \u2026 \/technology-23443215<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you have a passenger in the back seat of your car offering infuriatingly \u201chelpful\u201d advice about your driving skills, count yourself lucky that they aren\u2019t doing anything more sinister in their attempts to guide your vehicle. Two security experts in the US have demonstrated taking control of two popular models of car, while someone else was driving them, using a laptop. Speaking to the BBC ahead of revealing their research at security conference Defcon in Las Vegas in August, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said they hoped to raise awareness about the security issues around increasingly computer-dominated car control. \u201cAt the moment there are people who are in the know, there are nay-sayers who don\u2019t believe it\u2019s important, and there are others saying it\u2019s common knowledge but right now there\u2019s not much data out there,\u201d said Mr Miller, a security engineer at Twitter. \u201cWe would love for everyone to start having a discussion about this, and for manufacturers to listen and improve the security of cars.\u201d Their work, funded by the Pentagon\u2019s research facility Darpa, has so far received a mixed reaction from the manufacturers themselves. Full article: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk \u2026 \/technology-23443215<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}