Hackers Hijack Prius with Mac Laptop

[Guest]

The Toyota Prius is one of the most high-tech cars on the consumer market. So many of its processes are linked up to the car's onboard computer that you almost don't even have to put your hands on the steering wheel to drive the car.  In fact, for hac

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[hfitch]

It was chinese hackers screwing up Toyota cars a few years ago. Thats it thats why the breaks failed.

 

[hfitch]

It was chinese hackers screwing up Toyota cars a few years ago. Thats it thats why the breaks failed.

 

[danwat1234]

Here is the video, the preview of what they have been able to do in a Prius and another car. They had to connect to the computers directly, as you can see, the dashboard was all taken apart.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqe6S6m73Zw&feature=player_embedded


More in the future, more often computer systems in your car that are connected to the internet will probably have full access to the ECU (engine computer) and other critical CPUs. So remote hacking will be more of a concern in the future. But for right now in the majority of cars, the computer that has internet access can't access critical systems so remote hacking isn't possible (?). It can get information from critical systems but can't modify. Like say getting engine temp, regenerative braking data, but can't modify the systems at all. I hope

 

[house70]

Great "hacking", indeed. They had to literally hack open the dashboard to do it. Wouldn't surprise me if they had to actually cut the brakes for the hack to work, lol.