Hacker Disables Cars |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 17:08 |
You don't even have to be using a computer to get hacked these days.... I guess it's better than taking a gun and going postal (shooting your former fellow employees, in case you've been living in a cave), but not by much. Imagine trying to get to work in the morning and finding your car is completely disabled, or else being woken in the middle of the night by your car's horn that you can't shut off unless you remove the vehicle's battery: Just goes to show--don't share your passwords with fellow employees, and for employers, when an employee leaves, then it's time to get your employees to change passwords.. which they should be doing periodically anyway. * * * An update to this article... an article on CNET News (Aug.31, 2010) questions whether cars are the next hacking frontier: Looks like you may want to be careful if the spouse you want to divorce or the person you just angered is a computer geek. You just never know what may happen to your car if you upset the wrong person. Yikes! |