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The really scary part is when the kill switch is in reference to your life rather than the car's movement. Like the theories about the death of Michael Hasting
by tenpies 4y ago
The really scary part is when the kill switch is in reference to your life rather than the car's movement. Like the theories about the death of Michael Hastings in 2013.
Hacks of cars were demonstrated in 2015 and documents from the CIA released by Wikileaks showed they have explored the idea as early as 2014[1], but at the time it was still presumed that killing someone by hacking their vehicle would be quite resource-extensive.
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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/08/what-we-know-about-car-hacking-the-cia-and-those-wikileaks-claims/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/0...