Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked

Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by AgentME on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:55AM (#10058829)

Those articles say that the idea of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in a car is ridiculous (therefore so is the murder idea), but is that not exactly what happened with Jeep here?

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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by jessaustin on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:24AM (#10060242)

Yeah that was my point. There are always "experts" to be found who can't imagine a particular exploit working. Reality is not limited to some dude's imagination, so we should have read the initial articles for what they were: "nothing to see here, move along." If we knew then what we know now, such articles would have piqued our curiosity. Therefore, the fact that they were published does pique my curiosity.

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Re:Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was h... by PhantomGremlin on Saturday August 15, 2015 @12:28PM (#10065813)

Reality is not limited to some dude's imagination

I love that quip.

It reminds me a little of something we say, more or less: "this device does not read its data sheet". It comes up a lot when a physical device does not behave the way you might expect from reading its accompanying documentation.

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