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Can Your Car Be Hacked?
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When you go for a drive, you ride atop a slew of computers. These computers control your engine's performance, your steering, your brake, and throttle input. Your radio, navigation, air conditioning, and instrument cluster. Your power windows, you door locks—you get the picture...
Last year, security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek successfully controlled a car from across the Internet, 10 miles away, while it drove down a Missouri freeway. With an increasingly nervous reporter behind the wheel, they first tapped into the electrical systems—wipers started going off, the air conditioning went to full blast—before cutting the transmission at 70 miles per hour, which is right around the time when things got serious.
The vulnerabilities came from the car's infotainment system, which is linked to a cellular network: it contained security flaws that the hackers were able to exploit. The result prompted lawmakers to propose an automotive security bill, made every automaker on the planet just as nervous as said reporter, and forced the car maker to issue a recall—with a security patch that Miller and Valasek helped research, just to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
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