Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on a Highway | WIRED
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HN cites it as the standard precedent for remote car hacking whenever connected or self-driving vehicle security comes up.
What it is
WIRED's Andy Greenberg drives a Jeep on a highway while two hackers take control of it remotely over the internet. They manipulate the car and then cut the engine. The video accompanies the 2015 article on the Jeep Cherokee hack.
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What Hacker News said
Cites madamelic · 2021-02 · on “Autopilot on Cars for $999”
The real Goosebumps for devs is cars willing to take driving inputs over their built-in networks from outside the car. [this video]
Cites LinuxBender · 2021-03 · on “Chinese military restricts use of Teslas over security concerns”
The camera is what scares them? For me it would be remote take-over. You are experiencing a car accident [1] But seriously, these companies get hacked [2]. Remote control hacks have been done on several cars that aren't even fully self-driving. [3] No idea if anyone has taken full control of a Tesla yet. Their remote entry has been hacked many times but that is a different system. If you could hack this [4] you just need to overcome the 4mph speed limit safety control. [1] - [LINK] [iRobot, just for fun] [2] - [LINK] [Tesla being attacked] [3] - [this video] [Jeep Cherokee remotely hacked and controlled while driving] [4] - [LINK] [Remote Control Range Rover Sport]
Cites magicalhippo · 2021-05 · on “Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit”
There's been at least one car[1] where hackers gained access to the car electronics through the infotainment system. Not sure about the Tesla, but several other cars[2] have their infotainment connected to the rest of the control systems. So in general, it's not "just" the infotainment system. [1]: [this video] [2]: [LINK]
Cites waterhouse · 2023-05 · on “Statement on AI Risk”
Addressing your points in order: - Human hackers who run a botnet of infected computers are not able to run many instances of themselves on those computers, so they're not able to parlay one exploit into many exploits. - You might notice I said it would take over hundreds of millions of computers, but only run millions of instances of itself. If 1% of internet-attached computers have a decent GPU, that seems feasible. - If it has found exploits in the software, it seems irrelevant what the interfaces "allow", unless there's some hardware interlock that can't be overridden—but they can drive on the highway, so surely they are able to accelerate at least to 65 mph; seems unlikely that there's