[Healeys] Off Topic (sort of)

[Len and/or Marge Hartnett]

Coincidentally, the Sacramento Bee newspaper contained an article today by 
John Markoff, New York Times, "Cars' computers not hacker-proof, researchers 
warn".  At this time I would have to consider it legitimate considering the 
capablilities of GM's OnStar system.  Following are a few comments the 
article contained:

"Automobiles, which will be increasingly connected to the Internet in the 
near future, could be vulnerable to hackers just as personal computers are 
now, two teams of computer scientists are warning in a paper to be presented 
this week.

The scientists say that they were able to remotely control braking and other 
functions and that the car industry is running the risk of repeating the 
security mistakes of the PC industry.

"We demonstrated the ability to adversarially control a wide range of 
automotive functions and completely ignore driver input - including 
disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, 
stopping the engine, and so on"...

...He said the research teams were able to demonstrate their ability to 
circumvent a wide variety of systems critical to the safety of drivers and 
passengers...The reseachers were able to activate dozens of functions - 
almost all of them while the car was in motion...".

(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA, USA
1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald at gmail.com>
To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net>
Cc: "healeylist" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Off Topic (sort of)


> That article is so full of errors, it is a prime example of why computers
> are better at some tasks than people