Schneier on Security: Disabling Cars by Remote Control
March 18th, 2010 by Lance Cottrell
Schneier on Security: Disabling Cars by Remote Control
This is just too good. It is a great example of where giving others power over your security, which they then centralize in a single place, leads to compromise with nasty failure modes.
In this case, a disgruntled former employee uses a system to disable over 1000 vehicles.
- Lance Cottrell
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September 8th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Although the employee decided to disabled a 1000 cars, I know people at OnStar who routinely listen in on GM cars which come equipped with OnStar. In fact, in a case where someone I knew had his Hummer listened in on with a warrant, thus negating the days of planting a listening device in the car since it comes equipped with it! See, http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/…19…/22620787.html
Darren Chaker