Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

[list@sysfu.com (Seth)]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700, M373 <M373@riseup.net> wrote:

> On 24-Jul-15 11:52, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>>> I seriously wonder if there's any assassinations that've happened with  
>>> the
>>> use of this mechanism. (1. wait until approaching intersection at high
>>> speed, 2. disengage brakes + steering wheel, is probably very  
>>> effective)
>>>
>> We were discussing this in chat.
>> Someone suggested "sooner or later sploits like this
>> will appear on black/gray sploits markets or even become
>> public". Then likely car accidents will go up and
>> maybe mainstream media will cry "car/hackers injure human"
>> (the other way is not news, it is statistics).
>
> Some conspiracists conjectured this might have happened in the fatal,
> fiery crash of the investigative journalist Michael Hastings in L.A.,
> but without hard evidence it's the purview of the credulous prone to
> conspiracy theories rather than an actual one (of which there are many).

Right, I mean the official story was such a credulous one, and no one in  
squeaky clean US power structure had any motive to eliminate an  
investigative journalist like Hastings.

Oh those credulous conspiracy theorists with their crazy theories about  
assassination via car hacking.