An issue raised our investigation of the Dieselgate scandal is whether independent researchers are allowed to investigate the inner workings of our cars. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was originally enacted to protect the music industry from wholesale copying of digital media, but its application was broadened to protect software…
Current cars, and the cars coming in a few years, are simply not at all like the cars of just a couple years ago. These newfangled cars for young whippersnappers are like rolling computer networks, with various embedded computers and software services all talking to each other. It’s even common…
Could “hackers” abuse electric car charging stations to crash the grid because of smart grid features? That piece of fearism was presented recently at a security conference, and while the researcher laid out several plausible attack routes, he didn’t demonstrate a working attack. The basic idea is that electric cars…
