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Excellent points. And these hackable vehicles are powerful enough in the physical word to be "kinetic" weapons. So we should expect the exploit market to incl
by neilv 3y ago
Excellent points. And these hackable vehicles are powerful enough in the physical word to be "kinetic" weapons.
So we should expect the exploit market to include buyers for assassinations (of occupant or person on the street), extortion ("every hour that the Bitcoin aren't transferred, we will take over one of your customer's vehicles in an extremely tragic way, and later we will tell the news media that you declined to prevent it"), economic sabotage, market moving, terrorism, and warfare.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoI wonder how bad this is compared to the competition. https://comma.ai https://comma.ai allows you to add self-driving features to a large number of non-Tesla cars so, if we’re including physical firmware hacks as a threat vector, I’d bet tons of alternative cars (new enough Honda Odysseys, Toyota Siennas, etc: probably anything with adaptive cruise control and lane following) have the same sort of potential vulnerability.
- mullingitover 3y agoProbably depends on how online the car is. The always-online, always able to receive manufacturer firmware updates aspect of Teslas is probably the most risky part. I don't worry about anyone hijacking my Civic remotely.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoIt might be risky in theory, but hasn’t firmware signing on Apple Devices and other such devices basically shown that we can do this safely?
- mullingitover 3y agoIt can be done safely, but if Tesla is compromised and their attackers gain access to their network and their signing keys, all bets are off. I would bet that there are multiple unfriendly nation states who have intelligence groups persistently looking for ways to penetrate vital networks and secrets, like Tesla's, just to have the option of causing pandemonium if they wish to.