Car Hacking
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Car Hacking
Reading the Metro today and I note the front page is all about car hacking. Two blokes in the US are suggesting that with the correct computer equipment, they can over-ride the computer in a car and take control of the brakes, steering, accelerator, seatbelts, airbags etc.
This all sounds very worrying to me - especially if such a thing could ever be done remotely (they demonstrated it by connecting their Macbook to the car). I can see the benefit in terms of the police having such power, to bring dangerous drivers to a safe and controlled stop for instance, but this kind of technology could be terrifying if it gets into the wrong hands.
I mean, what would happen if someone hacked into your car and made you listed to Radio 4.
This all sounds very worrying to me - especially if such a thing could ever be done remotely (they demonstrated it by connecting their Macbook to the car). I can see the benefit in terms of the police having such power, to bring dangerous drivers to a safe and controlled stop for instance, but this kind of technology could be terrifying if it gets into the wrong hands.
I mean, what would happen if someone hacked into your car and made you listed to Radio 4.
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I locked the keys in the boot of the Merc recently.
MB MOBILO came out and it appeared he Blue-toothed into the ECU and next thing the door and bonnet were up and the alarm goes off.
A few seconds later - silence.
Requires a complete reload after (20mins) and seems that its live to MB Germany for security, but nevertheless its clever stuff
Most oem diagnostics can drive all the actuators on the car, I could do everything to the BMW from the laptop, even run the washers.
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MB MOBILO came out and it appeared he Blue-toothed into the ECU and next thing the door and bonnet were up and the alarm goes off.
A few seconds later - silence.
Requires a complete reload after (20mins) and seems that its live to MB Germany for security, but nevertheless its clever stuff
Most oem diagnostics can drive all the actuators on the car, I could do everything to the BMW from the laptop, even run the washers.
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I remember scare stories about this years ago.
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Seems VW are worried enough about wireless hacking to get a House of Lords injunction to stop a presentation on it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07...zled_by_lords/
..and for my quite old Mk4 Golf if you have access to the OBD2 port you can do a lot more that read fault codes - pairing a remote keyfob being one of the easier things you can do - cracking the immobiliser chip (getting the PIN code for the clocks where the immobiliser is) can also be done, it's DBW so I suppose it would be possible to change the calibration on the TPS sensor by modifying one of the sensor blocks too - and we are talking about a 12 year old car here so newer ones I'm sure you'll have access to more functionality.
..and for my quite old Mk4 Golf if you have access to the OBD2 port you can do a lot more that read fault codes - pairing a remote keyfob being one of the easier things you can do - cracking the immobiliser chip (getting the PIN code for the clocks where the immobiliser is) can also be done, it's DBW so I suppose it would be possible to change the calibration on the TPS sensor by modifying one of the sensor blocks too - and we are talking about a 12 year old car here so newer ones I'm sure you'll have access to more functionality.