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[BrickMan300]

So if i'm someone of interest that the government or "super hackers" may target. I will drive an older car, so i'm safe from ninja mechanics accessing my cars ports. Like the nice :tinfoil: lady said about the "attackers sitting on your can bus" :v:

[Zombini]

[QUOTE=ramirez!;41196167]As a side note, if ECU security really is a problem, why not construct a small Faraday cage or the likes over it? They're usually quite separate from the engine, should be possible if you're really worried about it.

[editline]26th June 2013[/editline]

Damn you. Haha what I meant is I suppose it's possible that there exists some sort of receiver/transmitter that a devious fellow could splice into the wiring, although it would be highly amusing to see the above scenario play out.[/QUOTE]
A faraday cage tends to work best when it's grounded, so that wouldn't work unless you had a wire constantly dragging the ground as you drove, and as to what happened to my USB phone charger during a motorcycle trip, it would wear down really fast. Seriously, my USB charge was worn down to bare wires from the end dragging on the highway for 20 min.

[Splarg]

This reminds me of water stations in the US and UK being hacked, which both begged the question, [i]why the fuck are the critical mechanical systems connected to the internet.[/i]

[InsanePyro]

Having a truck from '89 and '93 is awesome

[sYnced]

This sounds like pure conspiracy. Modern cars are almost entirely mechanical. There's huge resistance to drive-by-wire type technology. The only adoption is drive-by-wire and electric gearboxes. No way you could 'hack' a car, especially not the car he was driving.

[InsanePyro]

[QUOTE=sYnced;41207745]This sounds like pure conspiracy. Modern cars are almost entirely mechanical. There's huge resistance to drive-by-wire type technology. The only adoption is drive-by-wire and electric gearboxes. No way you could 'hack' a car, especially not the car he was driving.[/QUOTE]

Not really. Alot is electrical now. Actual cables are being used less and less. As meantioned on star could be used to remotely kill a car

[Emperorconor]

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41207389]This isn't THAT much of a far out concept.[/QUOTE]

There's easier, subtler, faster, and more effective ways than trying to "hack a car" (whatever that means lmao).

[Zenreon]

[QUOTE=Emperorconor;41207824]There's easier, subtler, faster, and more effective ways than trying to "hack a car" (whatever that means lmao).[/QUOTE]

It means being able to input by one means or another commands to either the steering, braking or acceleration.

[Kogitsune]

There's a company that sells this technology as a feature to consumers - it is called OnStar.