Wednesday, May 19, 2010

 

Remote control retribution

In what sounds like the preface to a sophisticated techno-thriller, scientists from university research teams in Japan and the US have succeeded in hacking into car control systems, even remotely controlling vehicles from the internet.

I don't mean to be alarmist, but it sounds really frightening. I once had a retributive ex-boyfriend who angrily kicked the hubcap of what was my pride and joy, a Peugeot 205, and I fear that if ever I have a similar break-up in the not-so-distant science fiction future, things could be far worse.

As a result, knowing how reckless and impetuous, even calculating, a spurned lover can be, from now on I intend only to date men who are computer illiterate and think that a laptop is some form of service they might receive at a strip club.

I also intend to buy a car that is made out of lead or some other similarly radio and electronic signal impermeable material. Think of it as a mobile faraday cage.

Well, at least until the motor industry responds to the threat by putting up better defences; sort of like a Norton Firewall, only for cars.

As one of the scientists involves comments, "This industry hasn't had to deal with adversarial pressure, so its defences haven't had to be that strong,"

Image © Tom Raftery via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence

# posted by Fuse @ 3:24 AM
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