Car Hackers Can Kill Brakes, Engine, and More

This story sounded kinda scary until I realized how they actually "hacked" the computer in the car. If you ask me, this is just one more reason to buy a classic car like mine...there ain't no hacking a 40 year old muscle car.

In a late 2009 demonstration at a decommissioned airfield in Blaine Washington, they hacked into a test car's electronic braking system and prevented a test driver from braking a moving car -- no matter how hard he pressed on the brakes. In other tests, they were able to kill the engine, falsify the speedometer reading, and automatically lock the car's brakes unevenly, a maneuver that could destabilize the car traveling high speeds.

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