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>> The attacker’s PC had been wired into the vehicles’ onboard diagnostic port, a feature that normally gives repair technicians access to information about the car’s electronically controlled systems.

Is this even really considered an issue?




Here's the context:

Back then, however, their hacks had a comforting limitation: The attacker’s PC had been wired into the vehicles’ onboard diagnostic port, a feature that normally gives repair technicians access to information about the car’s electronically controlled systems.

A mere two years later, that carjacking has gone wireless.

So the issue is right there in the surrounding text.


A bit of Arduino magic and a few minutes alone with an unlocked car (or locked but otherwise vulnerable) and that wired port could become wireless.


That was a previous demonstration; this one was done solely wirelessly.




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