>We are a very visual culture, unfortunately. Unless there's a video of your average Joe driving on a regular highway and a regular car going wild, everyone would just dismiss the problem as limited to "race track" and would not connect the vulnerability to his/her own car.
If optics is your justification for this, then perhaps having these two irresponsible researchers arrested would bring even more attention to this.
>edit: as per the article "researchers already did test these exploits in controlled environments and presented these tests to auto manufacturers. Said tests were dismissed by said manufacturers.".
Where do you see that in the article? Only thing I read was manufacturers downplaying a wired-in attack they demoed.
> "researchers arrested would bring even more attention to this."
Yep.
> Where do you see that in the article? Only thing I read was manufacturers downplaying a wired-in attack they demoed.
No "air gap" between "CAN bus and Internet" equals vulnerable.
We know that. Auto manufacturers know that.
Yet they dismiss the possibility of a hack and continue producing unsafe vehicles. And the trend is toward more vulnerabilities.
I was to lazy to search a direct quote, but here it is now: "Miller and Valasek represent the second act in a good-cop/bad-cop routine. Carmakers who failed to heed polite warnings in 2011 now face the possibility of a public dump of their vehicles’ security flaws.".
If optics is your justification for this, then perhaps having these two irresponsible researchers arrested would bring even more attention to this.
>edit: as per the article "researchers already did test these exploits in controlled environments and presented these tests to auto manufacturers. Said tests were dismissed by said manufacturers.".
Where do you see that in the article? Only thing I read was manufacturers downplaying a wired-in attack they demoed.