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Last summer, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were so alarmed at the terrible state of information security in cars that they demo'ed a hack that let them take over Chrysler Jeep Cherokees over the public Internet, controlling the steering and the brakes and the acceleration.
Chrysler recalled 1.4 million Jeeps, and the researchers and Wired’s Andy Greenberg, who wrote up the hack, hoped that America had woken up to the looming disaster.
America hit the snooze bar and rolled over.
A Kelley’s Blue Book survey found that 72% of Americans have forgotten entirely – or never knew – about the terrifying hack. Of those who remember it, most get virtually every key detail wrong.
While survey respondents say that they think about cybersecurity in the context of their next car, the remarkable ability of the American public to forget virtually guarantees that automotive manufacturers will continue to ship grossly defective goods and then argue that copyright law gives them the power to suppress security research that embarrasses them.
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The Internet Of Things is a dystopian nightmare.
jron:
mostlysignssomeportents:
Last summer, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were so alarmed at the terrible state of information security in cars that they demo'ed a hack that let them take over Chrysler Jeep Cherokees over the public Internet, controlling the steering and the brakes and the acceleration.
Chrysler recalled 1.4 million Jeeps, and the researchers and Wired’s Andy Greenberg, who wrote up the hack, hoped that America had woken up to the looming disaster.
America hit the snooze bar and rolled over.
A Kelley’s Blue Book survey found that 72% of Americans have forgotten entirely – or never knew – about the terrifying hack. Of those who remember it, most get virtually every key detail wrong.
While survey respondents say that they think about cybersecurity in the context of their next car, the remarkable ability of the American public to forget virtually guarantees that automotive manufacturers will continue to ship grossly defective goods and then argue that copyright law gives them the power to suppress security research that embarrasses them.
http://ift.tt/1p5do6v
The Internet Of Things is a dystopian nightmare.
