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The hackers' behaviour was utterly reckless. Demoing it on a test track with no other vehicles and a volunteer driver with helmet and roll cage -- that'd be ac
by cstross 11y ago
The hackers' behaviour was utterly reckless.
Demoing it on a test track with no other vehicles and a volunteer driver with helmet and roll cage -- that'd be acceptable, maybe, with suitable safeguards.
But doing it on the open highway with unaware third parties driving past, merely telling the test guinea pig "not to lose control" while being blasted with cold air and loud noise, having the controls disabled, and visibility impaired? That's gross recklessness with public safety. (Here's a clue: you could have put me in that car and given me all the warning in the world and I could not guarantee maintaining control or not causing a potentially fatal accident at 70mph under those conditions.)
You shouldn't run experiments on big powerful machines in public places where you can't keep by-standers out. Gross ethical breach. I just hope the journalist is exaggerating or making things up.
- dchichkov 11y agoTo me it seems like it is gross recklessness with public safety from car manufacturers. The car manufacturers are risking lives of all these people by not keeping the air gap between CAN and Internet...
- cmdkeen 11y agoIt can be both, security researchers don't get a free pass just because they are exposing a wrong. Had someone died you might (in countries which have it) get corporate manslaughter on a company that ignored security warnings. You absolutely would on the researchers and the journalist for their reckless disregard for the lives of others.
- dchichkov 11y agoYes, researchers don't get a free pass. Nothing is free. They've risked lives and their reputations to save lives. It had happened before in the history. And hopefully it will happen again. Some times it is worth it. (*) without risking lives there wouldn't have been a video documenting these life-threatening vulnerabilities in the cars.
- cmdkeen 11y agoRubbish - there would be a video of them on a test track. Much like all the videos proving quite how fast the cars can go. You don't drive a McLaren F1 at 240mph on the Interstate and post it to Wired expecting to get away with it...
- craigjb 11y agoThey did not only risk their own lives. They put other people around them at an increase risk when it was unnecessary. That is the argument, that it was not necessary. This same demonstration could have been done on a track or other controlled environment where the public was not in danger.
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