[aklug] Maybe we should worry about the vehicles we buy? <was Re: brick phones>

No regulation here - except perhaps what NTSB will allow to be
mechanical or not, things are much looser in Europe:

> From Forbes:
>
> Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their
> cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly-networked
> systems are protected from rogue wireless intrusion. Now two
> researchers plan to show that a few minutes alone with a car and a
> tiny, cheap device can give digital saboteurs all the wireless control
> they need...
>
> For now, the tool communicates via only Bluetooth, limiting the range
> of any wireless attack to a few feet. But by the time the two
> researchers present their research in Singapore, they say they'll
> upgrade it to use a GSM cellular radio instead that would make it
> possible to control the device from miles away.
>
> All the ingredients of their tool are off-the-shelf components, adds
> Vazquez Vidal, so that even if the device is discovered it wouldn't
> necessarily provide clues as to who planted it. "It's totally
> untraceable," he says.

http://www.vulgartrader.com/post/75909278496/this-device-can-hijack-a-car

On 02/09/2014 10:38 PM, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I fail to understand why the carriers can't simply deny service to any
> imei# that is reported stolen.
>
> It seems like if the carriers were to simply deny service to stolen
> phones, it would take away the incentive to steal them.
>
> Yeah, I've heard that imei#'s can be altered, but I'm also under the
> impression that only more sophisticated criminal groups have the
> ability (smarts?) to do this. I don't believe most phones are stolen
> by people who have the wherewithal to do this.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com
> <mailto:christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>> wrote:
>
> For those of us who haven't had time -- is there anyone who has been
> watching this issue?: I've been hearing about a recent push (I think
> this has been suggested before) from members of congress saying
> that we
> should try to end all cell phone theft by forcing manufacturers to
> design their cell phones so that they brick themselves when stolen.
>
> Personally, anytime I hear the word "legislation" used in any
> discussion
> related to technology, I get a nervous twitch. But anyone know more
> about this?
>
> --
> http://www.lugod.org/presentations/pgp/why.html
>
>

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