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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by recursivedoubts on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:16PM (#49955216)
It has been demonstrated repeatedly that modern cars can be remotely hijacked and controlled as well. We really do live in a dystopia.
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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by WalterGR on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:54PM (#49955595)
That would be quite shocking. Links?
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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by OptionOfT on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:01PM (#49955648)
Old article: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

Fast forward to today: getting access to the canbus (e.g. via headlights) allow you to steal the car: https://www.theregister.com/security/2023/04/06/how-thieves-...

Given the integration of these modules, is it that weird that you could send signals the other way?

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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by kube-system on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:56PM (#49956735)
> Given the integration of these modules, is it that weird that you could send signals the other way?

No, but there are simple solutions to this: a firewall, which is how this has been fixed on some cars.

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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by recursivedoubts on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:21PM (#49959390)
You trust car makers to get that right?

You trust state actors to not force them to not get it right?

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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by kube-system on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:33PM (#49959752)
I don't trust any of them -- I simply commented on the fact that it is a solvable problem.
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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by bookofjoe on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:01PM (#49955647)
>Cybersecurity experts hack and take remote control of SUV (2015)

https://youtu.be/DoP71LeQt3o?si=eSWRTaBYmzAOPWEz

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Re:Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening by jerf on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:43PM (#49956051)
Shocking?

Why would it be shocking?

It would be shocking if it weren't possible. Being a car does not confer any sort of magical protection against hacking because "it's just a car" or something.

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