originally posted in:Secular Sevens
It's no so bad. Currently, you need direct access to the vehicle, at which point an attacker could do any number of other nasty things to your car already. The interesting part that hasn't been brought up yet, is that this type of attack [i]could[/i] theoretically use OnStar as an attack vector. Remote access changes the game.
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Except the article in the OP says the exact opposite of what you just said. [quote]A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, experimenting on a sedan from an unnamed company in 2010, found that they could [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/10hack.html?_r=0]wirelessly penetrate the same critical systems Miller and Valasek targeted[/url] using the car’s [i]OnStar-like cellular connection[/i], [i]Bluetooth bugs[/i], a rogue [i]Android app that synched with the car’s network from the driver’s smartphone[/i] or even a malicious audio file on a CD in the car’s stereo system. “Academics have shown [b]you can get remote code execution[/b],” says Valasek, using hacker jargon for the ability to start running commands on a system. “We showed you can do a lot of crazy things once you’re inside.”[/quote]
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I didn't look at this article specifically, I was talking about things that were presented at Black Hat.