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Man pleads guilty to controlling ex-girlfriend’s car with his computer
- Canada 7y agoWhat is the reason this "stalking" is despicable while at the same time this "stalking" is just business as usual? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440526
- salawat 7y agoIt's a well known phenomena that when evaluating new technology we tend to overestimate short term consequences, but severely understate the long term ones. Society at large is just now starting to grok the nightmare that ubiquitous computing and wireless networking is enabling. Just because most normal folks aren't burdened with the imagination required to process all the shit you shouldn't do with networking doesn't mean we should treat the fact others have gotten away with it as "every one being okay with lt as business as usual."
- Canada 7y agoWell, the victim in this case sure groks it now. I wonder how many more times these kind of incidents need to happen before society realizes it's not acceptable for companies to treat information about us so carelessly.
- matt-attack 7y ago> It was also revealed he had helped his victim to buy a Land Rover when they were dating and as a consequence had access to the vehicle's VIN, which allowed him to set up the app. Last I checked the VIN is stamped right into the lower corner of your windshield visible to the public. It’s not intended to be a secret number in any way. Why would the author of this article assume that him buying the car for her was related to him knowing the VIN? I suspect the real story should be: Land Rover let’s attackers track/control a vehicle using only a public VIN for authentication.